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2011: A Year in Review

2011 has been a year of political turbulence in the European Union and around the world. Ilana Bet-El, Senior Policy Advisor at Fleishman-Hillard Brussels, takes a look back at the major geopolitical developments of the last twelve months, a year …Read Post »

2011: A Year in Review

2011 has been a year of political turbulence in the European Union and around the world. Ilana Bet-El, Senior Policy Advisor at Fleishman-Hillard Brussels, takes a look back at the major geopolitical developments of the last twelve months, a year …Read Post »

Fluidity and Instability III: Continuing Impacts on the Global Order

Fleishman-Hillard senior policy adviser Dr. Ilana Bet-El discusses the latest developments in geopolitics, with the continuing crisis in the Middle East, the ongoing Eurozone crisis, and other similar issues.

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Fluidity and Instability II: Continuing Impacts on the Global Order

Fleishman-Hillard senior policy adviser Dr. Ilana Bet-El discusses the latest developments in geopolitics, with bin Laden’s death, the continuing crisis in the Middle East, and the ongoing Eurozone crisis.

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Fluidity and Instability: Continuing Impacts on the Global Order

Fleishman-Hillard senior policy advisor Dr. Ilana Bet-El provides further insights into developments in the geopolitical sphere given continuing unrest in the Arab world, the ongoing implications of the events in Japan and the resultant impact on the EU and business.

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From Benghazi to Fukushima: Impacts on the Global Political Order

On 25 March 2011, EU leaders completed an extraordinary two-day summit set against the background of a startling series of international developments. This Fleishman-Hillard paper, by senior policy adviser Dr. Ilana Bet-El, examines the geopolitical implications of the situations in …Read Post »

Sub-Prime Crisis: Storm Force Winds Hit Europe

Just a week ago I suggested that continental Europe seemed rather detached from the global credit crisis.  Whoops! What terrible timing!
In the last seven days Europe has been hit by the storm force winds of this crisis. Liquidity has dried up, governments have been forced to rescue one institution after another, Iceland’s banking system seems [...] Read Post »

Europe’s Contrasting Reactions to Sub-Prime Crisis

While the United States and Britain reel from one catastrophe to another in the storm of the sub-prime crisis, the eurozone has seemed remarkably detached, until recently anyway. For the Americans and the Brits the news is totally dominated by stories of collapsing banks, bail-outs, vast lines of credit insurance which turn out to be [...] Read Post »