Opinions

Commentary: In the darkest phase of the crisis, the objective of the financially sound OPEC countries will be diversification from oil to more technologically advanced and expanding sectors, without neglecting the oil sector. For the less financially sound countries, it will be about implementing great political reforms, which may at least stabilize the countries floundering in severe economic crisis, or having their oil assets quickly sold by the richest Arab countries.

Commentary: Currently the relationship between politics and economy is changing in China, and the impact of the coronavirus pandemic is stepping up the privatization of the Chinese economy and the new relationship between the political centre and the economic decision-making process. The pandemic shows that nowadays, irrespective of our ideology of reference, borders are much vaguer and more porous than we imagined.  

Commentary: We officially propose the establishment of a medium-long term credit bank dedicated to small and medium-sized enterprises. You can have access to it with the same criteria as an ordinary industrial credit bank, which can lead the most promising SMEs to be listed on the stock exchange or can possibly organize an effective market for the minibonds issued by any small and medium-sized enterprise  

Commentary: The question must be asked. Is a dirty bomb – one we imagine as a 'suitcase bomb' moved by a terrorist and placed in the center of busy shopping center – feasible? Would it result in hundreds or thousands of injured?