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Price cap on gas will divide EU member states

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EU

Although member states agree in principle on the need to overhaul gas markets and strengthen resilience, the EU is divided between German- and French-led blocs on the price cap…

Protests show Macron is running out of election ideas

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FRANCE

Macron’s inability to appease the protesters or satisfy environmentalists poses electoral damage to his centrist En Marche party.

Swedish minority government will hold together for now

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SWEDEN

Curbing immigration is a central element in the agreement between the minority government and the far-right Sweden Democrats (SD) to secure their support in parliament. One year…

Economic realities will trump Angolan oil and gas plan

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ANGOLA

Crucial to the new framework's success will be the ongoing overhaul of state-owned oil company Sonangol, alongside an oil price recovery, as well as politically contentious fuel…

Morocco sets global pace for renewables

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MOROCCO

Morocco renewables.

Canada's economy will affect political outlook in 2024

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CANADA

The economy has not grown in the past two quarters and, on a per capita basis, has declined for six consecutive quarters. With the Bank of Canada ruling out interest rate cuts…

External factors will slow Greek GDP growth next year

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GREECE

The economy is on track to grow by 5.3% year-on-year in 2022, outperforming market expectations for the second year in a row. In a sign of its recovery, Greece left the EU's…

Internal contradictions will dog Bulgarian coalition

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BULGARIA

Claiming that 30-40% of advance payments for the much-delayed Hemus motorway had been transferred to the Citizens for Bulgaria’s European Development (GERB) party, Rashkov refused…

Angola's renewed China dependence will bring more pain

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ANGOLA

However, China’s insistence on negotiating debt relief bilaterally and on a loan-by-loan basis will delay efforts to reschedule borrowing, jeopardising Angola’s debt…

Nordic far right may draw some voters but deter others

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SCANDINAVIA

Anna Koskela said she liked revving her car engine to scare young male immigrants from “underdeveloped countries” who ignored pedestrian crossings, describing them with a term…