Blackout in Belgium
QUENTIN GENARD Belgium faces a severe risk of electrical blackout during this winter. Half of the electricity produced in Belgium comes from the seven nuclear reactors…
Islamic finance. A new solution for entrepreneurs and investors?
KATARZYNA CZUPA One of the lessons that we have learned from the global financial crisis is that we do not know which kind of financial…
Moldovan Way to Association Agreement and DCFTA vs the Russian Customs Union
CEZARY SZCZEPANIUK Moldova is a partner country for the European Union in the framework of Eastern Partnership, which is a part of the European Neighbourhood Policy…
The use and abuse of Islamic Financial Instruments – the case of Kafala
KATARZYNA SIDŁO Sukuk, murabaha, takaful. Granted, those might not be household names yet. Undeniably, though, as of lately more and more people will have heard about…
The Saudi Way
PATRYCJA CHOMICKA While discussing Islamic finance, it is not possible not to mention the situation currently developing in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Although the economic…
Let’s talk about Islamic Finance – facts that everybody should know
KATARZYNA CZUPA Arab money usually connotes three following things: petrodollars, which are invested in artificial islands and ridiculously high skyscrapers; taking over the Western companies, football…
Belgium has a Federal Government. But at what coast?
QUENTIN GENARD ‘I pledge fidelity to the King, obedience to the Constitution and to the laws of the Belgian people’. Saying these words, 14 members of Michel…
“THE CLASH OF THE KINGS”
PRZEMYSŁAW SOPOĆKO The title taken from a recently popular novel written by George R.R. Martin, might be appropriate for the description of current British politics. The…
Jordan: Between stability and spillover
ANDREW SPATH The swiftness with which the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, now the Islamic State) assaulted and overran northern Iraq brings…
RESOLVING THE UNRESOLVABLE
KATARZYNA CZUPA Many have lost count, including myself. Having been inundated with the information about the number of casualties for so many years, anybody would. It…