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Europe’s claim to first-partner status in Australia’s trading relations took a battering from the global financial crisis, but recent figures shown business relations remain very healthy. … Read More »
Last- minute bidders emerged to try to save the Saab car company on the final date formally declared for offers (7.1.10), by the parent company General Motors. … Read More »
The EU office in Australia has been drawing attention to figures just out, confirming the major place of Europe in Australia’s commerce overseas. … Read More »
The “G20” economic summit in London (3.4.09) has signaled a change in the way world business activity is to be managed – in its response to the economic crisis.
Lee Duffield sets out to make sense of the claims about how a dinner meeting and set-piece round table by 20 heads of government might make a great difference. … Read More »
US President Barak Obama and the British Prime Minister Gordon Brown predicted some tough bargaining on the eve of the “Group of 20” economic summit in London (2.4.09). … Read More »
The Brazilian President - Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva – who has blamed the financial and economic crisis on the machinations of people with “blond hair and blue eyes” — has signed on to cooperate with the Europeans and others, at this week’s meeting of the G20 in London. … Read More »
The Australian Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd, has been speaking of concerns about a worsening of conditions in Eastern Europe, and possible aid from China, in his commentary on the world economy. … Read More »