According to a study conducted by the American consulting company Duff & Phelps, the majority of surveyed top managers in the financial sector considered New York to be the main global financial center, whereas a year earlier they preferred London. The respondents noted the alarm over the uncertainty surrounding Brexit and believe that in the near future Hong Kong may be competing with New...

Greek voters turned away from Alexis Tsipras’ left-wing Syriza party during the elections to the European Parliament and within the local elections held on the same day. The oppositional conservative party New Democracy, which outperformed Syriza by 9% in the elections to the EP, went ahead. Such a gap, of course, is very large, given that Syriza is the ruling party. The local elections are no...

The EU countries are counting preliminary results of the three-day voting in the largest legislative body of the European Union - the European Parliament - that ended on Sunday. The voter turnout exceeded 50% for the first time in two decades. The counting of votes has not yet been completed, but it is already obvious that many voters primarily in France, Italy and the UK supported radicals and...

According to the international public organization Avaaz, the European Internet is “choking on misinformation” on the eve of elections to the European Parliament. Experts have found more than 500 suspicious groups and pages that spread fake news and extremist propaganda and have tens of millions of subscribers. At the same time, according the Oxford Institute, Facebook users are more actively...

The United States is preparing sanctions and criminal cases against a number of members of the Venezuelan government. They are suspected of laundering money for Head of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, and his cabinet ministers, Reuters interviewees, familiar with the situation, reported. According to their information, the Venezuelan food program CLAP, founded in April 2016, was used for laundering....

Iranian authorities have sharply increased production of low-enriched uranium. Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization official Behrouz Kamalvandi reported an increase in production of low-enriched uranium four times, also stating that a notification was sent to the International Atomic Energy Agency. According to Fars and Tasnim news agencies, during a press conference in Tehran on Monday, May 20,...

The US watchdogs keep searching for information about possible foreign interference in the election campaign of Donald Trump. The media reported that the counter money laundering department of Deutsche Bank in 2016 and 2017 demanded to check information on international financial transactions made by Donald Trump and his son-in-law Jared Kushner. However, the bank’s management rejected this...

The White House launched a service in which users can complain about unfair deletion of their posts or blocking accounts in social networks, such as Facebook and Twitter. Users of the social networks whose posts have been unfairly deleted or accounts have been blocked can complain about this in the new service of the White House. This was reported by The Verge. "Too many Americans are faced with...

The elections to the European Parliament, scheduled for May 23–26, during which 751 members of the EU legislature will be re-elected in the 28 EU member countries, will be the most difficult since the first European elections of 1979. For the first time in history, the voting will take place in a situation of complete uncertainty, considering that 73 mandates still belong to the UK. AT the same...