Catch up with our EU Insider New Review each month. IBT Partners brings you that essential EU overview and links to much, much more!
October 2013 and the overall European picture, I am very pleased to say, is A++ and improving. European economic and business news is generally positive, confirming earlier patchy recovery statistics. So, scroll down and grab your essential EU Insider news…
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Germany: a vision for fuelling Europe on Renewables
So, who says Germany does not have a plan for Europe? Well, they do for renewables! European Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger has a plan and the political and financial clout to make it happen. With 200 infrastructure projects for Europe's future energy supply, a grand total of €5.8 billion ($7.9 billion) to promote the cross-border construction of new power lines, vast energy storage facilities and gas pipelines - is this indicative of German pan-European planning to come? |
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Spain: Investors this way please and Bill Gates knows why...
Our EU good news includes Spain, where the government states that it had exited a two-year recession and is faced with a challenging, but improved outlook for its economy in the coming months. The improved sentiment has been followed by several deals in Spain in the past month, including investment by Bill Gates into a Spanish building corp... |
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UK: London calling for a high-tech city
London leads the pack for the new European start-up scene in terms of entrepreneurial mindset and support. Dozens of co-working spaces have sprung up, with Google’s Campus being the best known. For those of you who know and love London, it’s all happening near City Road, around the corner from Finsbury Square (FYI - where I started my career) and its now a self-sufficient ecosystem - a sort of Silicon Valley with an East-End twang... |
A quick macro EU picture... US lobbyists enjoy a bonanza in Brussels, it's time to get familiar with your local US/EU business association (there's plenty to go around!) and if you're bored of reading, you have to watch this TTIP video - it’s a great insight…
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EU lobbyists: it's a bonanza for US lawyers
EU lobbyists: it's a bonanza for US lawyers Any lawyers out there that need a real job? Speak some German and French and want to live in Brussels? Try this. American law firms are increasingly considering the European Union’s vast apparatus as a vital lobbying opportunity for themselves and their multinational US corporate clients. Interested? |
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The European American Enterprise Council (EAEC) is a private member-driven organization that aims at promoting Cross-Atlantic cooperation, collaboration and business between European and American companies, institutions and economic regions while fostering innovation, international trade and entrepreneurship... |
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EU and US: Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP)
That's right, we have an EU video for you! Did you know that the United States invests 3 times more in Europe than in entire Asia? And that the European economy is the biggest in the world, surpassing even the US… Check out this great video, which says it all – well almost... |
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Last month I was in the US (as ever in business terms: inspiring , if somewhat politically unnerving!) I am in London, Paris and Dusseldorf this month spreading the US good news! We at IBT Partners wish you a profitable, Europe-focused November! |
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PS. Why not join our "Export - US to Europe" LinkedIn Group? The leading online community of professionals, of all industries and organizational sizes. You’ll be in good US to EU company...
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