Facebook will rethink the principles of placing political advertising on its platform and may make some changes to the regulations before the mid-term elections to the US Congress scheduled for November 2018, said This Thursday, October 12, said Facebook’s CTO Mike Schroepfer. "We are now actively working on all these things, the company pays much attention to improving all this," Reuters quotes...

The European Central Bank (ECB) received a profit of 7.2 billion pounds ($ 9.5 billion) from the Greek debt crisis, writes the Daily Express. The emerging information that the Greek bailout program has caused a shocking conflict of interest may lead to outrage in the country, which has been suffering from austerity measures for seven years. Leo Hoffmann-Axthelm of Transparency International...

China needs to weaken measures to control the movement of capital to gradually achieve the free movement of the yuan, stated Head of the People's Bank of China, Zhou Xiaochuan, on the eve of the forthcoming congress of the Communist Party of China. Now, the country's authorities, on the contrary, are strictly monitoring the movement of funds, using the current currency restrictions to control the...

British Prime Minister Theresa May said that she was ready for the failure of negotiations with Brussels on the withdrawal of the country from the European Union. At the same time, she is optimistic and confident that she will be able to achieve good results. Nevertheless, it is necessary to prepare for the worst development of events, May believes. In particular, Great Britain is reserving the...

If Catalonia leaves Spain and the so-called Catalexit still happens, the region will plunge into a long period of uncertainty, Business Insider reports with reference to the Dutch bank ING. The region has long been fighting for the preservation of its cultural identity. On Sunday, a referendum on independence was held in Catalonia, during which 90% of citizens voted to secede from the rest of the...

Expenditures of foreign tourists in different countries are growing at a level of GDP growth rates or even higher, a new study from Mastercard says. The company has studied 132 cities of the world in terms of their attractiveness for travel and tourist expenses. These cities can become engines of economic growth in their countries, the analysts emphasize. 1. Dubai Dubai turned out to be the...

The founder of the WikiLeaks website, Julian Assange, said that the first world Internet war began in Catalonia due to the referendum on the separation of the region from Spain. He wrote about this on his Twitter page. "The world's first Internet war began in Catalonia, people and the government are engaged in organizing a referendum on independence, and Spanish intelligence conducts attacks,...

It seemed that Emmanuel Macron and his advisors came up with a perfect plan. Soon after the elections to the Bundestag, the French president is presenting his ideas on reforming Europe. And the new government of Germany under the leadership of Chancellor Angela Merkel can immediately include these ideas in the coalition’s program. However, this wonderful plan did not work out. His German partner,...

Most countries in the world do not make enough use of the available human capital of their population. The global average of the Global Human Capital Report, calculated by experts of the World Economic Forum (WEF), is 62%. The WEF points out that residents of high-income countries have more opportunities to get a good education and apply the knowledge they have gained. The WEF understands human...