Financial crisis
Lost generations and obsessions
From 2008 onward, the international system has seen a number of crises blow up: credit, financial and fiscal crises that were followed by the migration crisis and the exacerbation of several geopolitical crises.
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BNB Governor: Economic Crisis in Bulgaria May Get Worse
The Governor of the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) Dimitar Radev warned of a possible deterioration of the economic crisis. The warning made on the eve of Banker's Day - December 6is published in the traditional bulletin released by the Association of Commercial Banks.
COVID-19 hits micro, small enterprises hardest: Survey
The coronavirus crisis has battered micro- and -small enterprises (MSEs) the most, according to a survey on June 11.
Speaking at a virtual meeting, Ümit Boyner, head of Business for Goals Platform (B4G), the organization which conducted the survey, said: "We see that the firms hit hardest by the crisis were micro-sized with 69% and small-sized with 49%."
Public relations stunts
The government faces a bumpy ride over the next few months. The prime minister and a small group of ministers and officials have handled two big crises - the deliberate migrant push at Greece's border with Turkey and the initial phase of the coronavirus - and these are successes no one can take away from the government, hard as they may try.
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Turkish banks well-prepared to face COVID-19: KPMG
The Turkish banking sector was prepared when the economic crisis driven by the novel coronavirus struck, according to global audit and consultancy firm KPMG on May 6.
KPMG in Turkey analyzed the sectoral impact of the pandemic that shook the world.
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BNR: Romania sees overlap of three crises and we must think how to exit impasse
The current situation in Romania is different than those in the past, because three crises overlap: a health crisis, a social crisis and an economic crisis, said, on Thursday, Adrian Vasilescu, strategy consultant with the National Bank of Romania (BNR).
Managing the crisis and planning for the day after
The crisis that our world is passing through has challenged our institutions and our way of life in ways not seen for decades. Vibrant and welcoming cities have fallen silent; normally friendly and sociable people avoid each other.
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If you want to save yourself, think of the others
How will this novel coronavirus change world politics in the years to come? This century has seen three crises in its first two decades. The terrorist attacks of September 2001 did not kill very many people, but terrorism is like theater in which the shock of horror can create disproportionate effects on the global agenda.
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Containing virus key to economic recovery, says Maurice Obstfeld
Measures designed to contain the coronavirus pandemic are also the most effective way to safeguard the world's economies as the coronavirus will continue to batter international markets until a vaccination is discovered, Berkeley University economics professor Maurice Obstfeld tells Kathimerini.
Editorial: Sort things out now!
Year-end and New Years' editions of newspapers less than three months discerned an unstable and uncertain world but obviously even in one's wildest dreams one could not have imagined the intensity and weight of current conditions.
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