According to Alfred de Zayas, TTIP, Tisa and Ceta, trade agreements under negotiation or coming to ratification are tainted by "without democratic legitimacy" negotiations and contain aspects that deny "the raison d’être" of the nation and the enterprise.
The Cuban author, currently professor of international law at the School of Diplomacy and International Relations in Geneva (Switzerland), also holds the positions of the Independent Expert for the promotion of fair and democratic international order of the United Nations.
The Democrats’ convention, who will appoint Hillary Clinton as a candidate to the White House, opens today in Philadelphia. The former first lady has got a surprise Michael Bloomberg support: three times mayor of New York, popular figure and supporter of important battles such as those against the spread of firearms and defense of the environment, will endors her.
According to the New York Times, citing one of the former commissioners of the council, Howard Wolfson, Bloomberg also had intention to run as an independent but on 7 March had finally announced the willingness to give up for fear that his descent into the field could favor Trump.
The Irish airline Ryanair closes its first quarter of fiscal year 2016-2017 with a net profit up 4% to 256 million euro, while the average rate has fallen by 10% to EUR 39.92 and passenger traffic grew by 11% to 31 million.
"The modest profit growth in the first quarter is in line with estimates," the company announced. The result, Ryanair points out, was affected by the absence of Easter in April-June period, the volatility of the market due to terrorist acts and a series of strikes, especially in France, which led to the cancellation of nearly 1,000 flights.
Verizon Communications has reached an agreement of $ 4.8 billion value to acquire part of the assets of Yahoo and close a long auction process for the former pioneer of the internet world.
The transaction concerns the internet business Yahoo and real estate and is expected to be announced during the day today. The price is far below the market capitalization of over 125 billion dollars achieved from Yahoo at the time of the dot-com bubble.
The Volkswagen Group has announced that from next Monday will make a voluntary stop the sale of 79 models in South Korea, as reported by various German newspapers. "We have decided to suspend sales to limit confusion between dealers and customers," said a spokesman for Volkswagen South Korea, who added that in case of withdrawal, to regain certification of the involved models may take up to three months.
The Greek government confirmed the raid, which took place in Athens in the house of a former UBS banker in the early days of the month, news already anticipated by the Financial Times. The investigation is relating to an alleged tax evasion.
A bank spokesman said the institute would not have been informed by the Greek authorities in the investigation and therefore can not provide more details on the matter.
The former London-based UBS trader Kweku Adoboli will not remain in the United Kingdom and will be extradited to Ghana, his country of origin. The Upper Tribunal of the Immigration and Asylum Chamber issued that judgment, rejecting his appeal to remain in Britain, where he lived from the age of 12 years.
In 2011, Adoboli had been responsible for a loss of $ 1.4 billion, as a result of unauthorized trading. In 2012 he was sentenced to seven years jail for fraud.
Failure coup in Turkey was added to the other problems of an already hot situation. And the economy can only suffer; Salman Ahmed, Chief Investment Strategist of Lombard Odier Investment Managers has declared in a statement that: "Given the strong intensification of political instability in Turkey and the external profile of the country’s extremely fragile and deteriorating, we believe likely that Turkish assets remain under pressure also in the future, while the underlying structural stability is re-evaluated. " He added that the resolution rather rapidly, in terms of re-establishment of public order, and the consequent strengthening of Erdogan in the context that followed the failed coup "could help reduce the extreme tail risk scenario of a civil war."
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