Sun, sand and tax “holidays”
In just a single decade, Egypt has lost more than $20 billion in trade mispricing alone, not to mention other forms of tax evasion.
Read MoreIn just a single decade, Egypt has lost more than $20 billion in trade mispricing alone, not to mention other forms of tax evasion.
Read MoreThree years after a revolution against Mubarak-era cronyism, fugitive tycoons are scrambling to buy back their freedom… at knock-down prices.
Read MoreThe least you’d expect of a disgraced politician is to bow out of the limelight. Not Silvio Berlusconi with his grandstanding and rent-a-crowd.
Read MoreSince the ‘Mubarak mafia’ were not outlaws but were the law, proving that Egypt’s lost billions were ill-gotten is an elusively difficult challenge.
Read MoreWith the surge in polarised power politics, young Hungarians, excluded and frustrated, are falling prey to extremism and its twin menace, apathy.
Read MoreBy courting his rivals, Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi could turn former allies into foes and bring to the fore the divisions among Islamists.
Read MoreWas Robert Mugabe’s appointment as UN ‘tourism ambassador’ an unforgivable travesty or can ‘guilt-edged tourism’ trigger reform in dictatorships?
Read MoreWith the right president, Egypt could rid itself of nepotism and inequality to become a prosperous and egalitarian society.
Read MoreAlthough many Europeans associate it with political turmoil, the Basque Country is the only Spanish region where the economic outlooks is mild.
Read MoreThe Greeks are putting a new spin on the legend of Troy by snubbing the fattest gift horse they’re likely to get from the weary euro club.
Read More