Abe to push security reform, may compromise economic change

TOKYO — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will this week push ahead with plans to loosen the rules governing the military, although analysts warn that this may squander the political capital needed to pursue tough economic reforms.

Clinton: Turn female economic issues into movement

WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday that voters need to turn pay inequity and women's economic security into a political movement in the November elections and beyond, pointing to an issue that could animate a future presidential campaign.

UK government finances show an unexpected deficit in July

Government finances showed an unexpected deficit in July for the second year running, according to official figures.

Americans still worried about their financial future

Most Americans believe that the Great Recession is over, according to MONEY magazine's new national survey.But a Great Insecurity seems to have emerged in its wake.

British economic recovery incomplete, warns Osborne

London (AFP) - Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne warned Sunday that Britain's economic recovery was on course but far from completion as he prepared to deliver his annual budget this week.

UK GDP: Investment fuels hopes of balanced recovery

Hopes for a stable and sustained recovery were boosted today as official figures showed the economy becoming less reliant on consumer spending after a surge in business investment.

Housebuilders boost UK construction sector output by 2%

Booming housebuilders pushed output across the construction sector up 2% in December last year, according to revised official figures, as rising house prices and cheap loan rates encouraged builders to expand the number of house starts.

Obama to tout economic security proposals Wednesday in Md., Pa.

Fresh off his State of the Union address, President Obama plans to discuss new ways to build economic security for the middle class and expand opportunity for all so that every American can get ahead.

The Economist: “The Fed's have-it-both-ways policy”

R.A., regarding Bernanke’s Jackson Hole speech, your column notes that you “found the tone on monetary policy to be confusing and timid.” Expectations now turn to what President Obama will say next week and what the Fed will do (or not do) when they next meet. Uncertainty again prevails.

Alexander Mirtchev

The new EU External Energy Policy: an important move - if it is not too late

 By Alexander Mirtchev

  

With the adoption of its new External Energy Policy, the EU has finally made a first step towards its integration as a single negotiating bloc in the world energy market. As such the External Energy Policy could become an important factor in the global energy security picture and a possible geopolitical game-changer. However, it remains to be seen whether the big EU member states will be willing to subordinate their interests to the wider EU interest. The External Energy Policy has probably come five years too late, argues Alexander Mirtchev, President of Krull Corp. and Vice-President of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies.

Will Financial Regulation Trash Global Economic Securi

Alexander Mirtchev, Contributor

Under the auspices of the Financial Stability Board, more than 30 recommendations have been set out as part of a massive and far-reaching G-20 financial regulatory reform package to ostensibly minimize risk in the financial system and maximize consumer protection.

How the Alternative Energy Megatrend will impact global geopolitical relations

The Greening of Geopolitics

By Dr Alexander Mirtchev

 

The advent of renewable energies is generally regarded from a fairly narrow perspective: whether – and to what extent – they are able to replace fossil fuels and what this would mean for the energy system and the economy. Such a perspective profoundly underestimates the potential consequences of what is in fact a revolutionary global development: a socio-political and techno-economic megatrend that has the ability to become a global societal game-changer, writes Alexander Mirtchev, Vice-President of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI). According to Mirtchev, the ‘Alternative Energy Megatrend’ will have far-reaching effects on global geopolitical relations and security concerns – effects that have yet to be fully grasped by most observers. This article is adapted from his upcoming book: “The Alternative Energy Megatrend: A Global Security Discourse in the Universally-Securitized World”.

Alternative Energy And Global Energy Security In Aftermath Of Rio+20

“Life always gets harder toward the summit–the cold increases, the responsibility increases.” These words by Friedrich Nietzsche aptly characterize the atmosphere among global leaders at June’s international summits.

Citizens Advice Scotland launches graduate survey

Citizens Advice Scotland (CAS) is launching a national online survey of recent graduates who are struggling to find work.

Forum focuses on food security challenges

Sheikh Nahyan Bin Mubarak Al Nahayan, Minister for Higher Education and Scientific Research and Chancellor Higher Colleges of Technology on Thursday opened the Gulf Intelligence Food Security Forum hosted by the institution at its Centre of Excellence for Applied Research and Training (CERT) in Abu Dhabi city.

Sheikh Nahyan noted that lack of enough food resources threaten national and economic security of states as well as global environmental security.

Qatar Meeting World Environmental Energy Needs

Qatar's Minister of Energy and Industry Mohammed Bin Saleh Al Sada, has stressed Qatar's commitment to its leading role in meeting the world's needs of environment-friendly energy in a sustainable manner .

He told the Fourth Asian Energy Ministers Roundtable Meeting in Kuwait on Monday that Qatar will remain committed to investing in various energy sectors and was using latest latest technologies.