This article was originally published in China.org.cn. It is being republished here with the kind permission of the author.

Discussions between China and the European Union (EU) have speeded up during 2011. To take just the most recent events, the second China-EU Strategic Dialogue was held in Hungary on May 12-15. European Council President Van Rompuy [...]

This article was originally posted on John’s blog Key Trends in Globalisation on the 17th of April. Reposted with permission.
Summary
Media attention regarding Europe’s economy has largely focussed on the debt crisis in Greece, Ireland and Portugal, together with some discussion of whether the radical cuts in public spending in the UK will undermine its [...]

This was originally posted on John Ross’s blog, Key Trends in the World Economy today. I’m reposting it here with permission.
The full scale of the economic declines in Ireland and Greece, under the impact of the debt agreements and consequent contractionary fiscal policies agreed by their governments, is shown in Figure 1 below. This [...]