News – Eric Reguly

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How Volkswagen, the symbol of German industrial brawn, skidded sideways

For the first time in 87 years, the world’s second-largest car maker may close factories...

Published on: 07 Sep 2024

Sicily’s shrivelled crops and depleted lakes are a harbinger of Europe’s climate crisis to come

The Mediterranean island is experiencing a climate crisis that has produced the most severe drought in living Sicilian memory...

Published on: 05 Sep 2024

The Airbnb backlash has begun as the company becomes part of the mob-tourism problem. Investors beware

The long, hot summer of 2024 in southern Europe may be remembered as when several cities got fed up with the type of mass tourism that at one point made the company worth US$100-billion...

Published on: 31 Aug 2024

The German arrest warrant for the Ukrainian diver suspected of the Nord Stream pipeline explosions far from clears up the attack mystery

The Ukrainian has fled to Poland and this mystery will probably forever remain unsolved...

Published on: 16 Aug 2024

French politics just got messier, and may stay messy for a long time as political paralysis sets in

A round of jostling and squabbling among the party bosses is certain, with an uncertain outcome, and a stalemate possible, while the economy and markets will stay jittery...

Published on: 09 Jul 2024

New Canadian aviation company buys an Italian airport in first move of overseas expansion

Centerline Airport Partners bought 51 per cent of Parma International Airport and aims to boost passenger traffic over the next five years...

Published on: 02 Jul 2024

New Canadian aviation company buys into Italian airport

Centerline Airport Partners bought 51 per cent of Parma International Airport and aims to boost passenger traffic over the next five years...

Published on: 02 Jul 2024

France’s Marine Le Pen’s victory may not last

Global investors can turn nasty fast and, if they do, Le Pen’s star could fade as fast as President Emmanuel Macron’s did...

Published on: 01 Jul 2024

France, not Italy, emerges as the next potential debt crisis hotspot as Macron’s French centrists face election drubbing

Italy has had the dubious distinction of being Europe’s traditional basket-case-in-waiting, but the focus has now shifted to Paris...

Published on: 28 Jun 2024

As Tunisia’s freedoms disappear, and its economy suffers, Tunisians themselves are taking to the boats

Approximately 140,000 migrants and refugees of all nationalities attempted the journey from Tunisia to Europe last year, an increase of 138 per cent over 2022...

Published on: 28 Jun 2024

European airline mergers are en route, risking the creation of a U.S.-style oligopoly with cruel ticket prices

European regulators could stop each of these takeovers or tie-ups, but probably won’t...

Published on: 21 Jun 2024

Protecting Tunisia’s charfia: A centuries old, ecologically gentle and UN-recognized way of fishing is being eradicated by illegal bottom trawlers

Officially, trawlers are not allowed to drag their nets along the bottom in shallow water, but ‘there are no daily patrols to stop them,’ a marine biologist points out...

Published on: 18 Jun 2024

Trudeau still not saying whether Liberals were among MPs involved in foreign interference

Jagmeet Singh has said some parliamentarians provided help to foreign governments, but Elizabeth May has suggested the opposite, saying she was ‘vastly relieved’ there were no traitors to Canada...

Published on: 15 Jun 2024

Francis becomes first pope to address a G7 summit, warns of dangers of AI

He called for the “ethical moderation of algorithms and artificial intelligence programs” to prevent injustices and dangers, such as AI-powered weapons deciding who to kill...

Published on: 14 Jun 2024

U.S., Ukraine announce long-term security pact while G7 agrees to hand Kyiv US$50-billion to support fight against Russia

But the agreement does not guarantee the U.S. will automatically defend Ukraine if the Russian advance accelerates...

Published on: 13 Jun 2024

G7 agrees to use frozen Russian assets to fund US$50-billion loan to Ukraine

Presidents Biden and Zelensky expected to meet in Fasano, Italy, to announce deal later today...

Published on: 13 Jun 2024

Travel hacks from globetrotting Globe and Mail staff

A few words of wisdom to make travel a little bit easier this summer...

By Eric Reguly, Nathan VanderKlippe, Paul Waldie, Shannon Proudfoot, Domini Clark, Catherine Dawson March

Published on: 12 Jun 2024

At G7 in Italy, PM Meloni’s clout may be the ticket to Ukraine breakthrough

Leaders may reach agreement on using Russia’s seized assts to pay for weapons for Ukraine, but other mandates will be tough...

Published on: 12 Jun 2024

The far right surges in the European vote, rattling the leaders of France and Germany

The European far right has now gone mainstream, confirming a trend that has been gaining momentum since Brexit and Trump’s 2016 election...

Published on: 10 Jun 2024

Rio Tinto CEO Jakob Stausholm may have to change strategy as company enters new round of upheaval

For the CEO of world’s second-biggest mining company, there are enormous risks in both playing the mergers and acquisitions game and avoiding it...

Published on: 08 Jun 2024

ESG investors are hitting the road. Don’t blame them. The investing standards are broken and need fixing

Investors seem to have realized that there is less to ESG than meets the eye. At best, its value to society and to portfolios is overstated; at worst, it’s a con job dressed up in a green package...

Published on: 07 Jun 2024

Italy’s Meloni and France’s Le Pen: The rising stars who will shape the EU Parliament in this week’s elections

The Italian Prime Minister is seen as a kingmaker in the European Parliament elections, in which right-wing parties are expected to make big electoral gains...

Published on: 06 Jun 2024