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Just read a brilliant article in The Guardin about how meetings have become a ritualistic way of spending time in modern organisation. They lack any substance and most of them are enemies to health and productivity. “The meeting has become the ceremony of executive importance: who calls it, who chairs it, who presents to it, […]

The 6 months old Romanian government is subjected to a non-confidence vote today after the party that supported it (and whose members are part of) withdrew this support in an unprecedented power play. The leader of the Social Democrats and the prime minister are two different persons. The reasons is that the leader (Dragnea) couldn’t […]

The British voted twice in less than two years for their MPs. Fast forward from the last vote, May pushes for early elections to consolidate her majority and silence her critics. This would have also worked in the negotiations with the EU. With a 20% lead in polls a month ago, May felt confident that the yesterday’s […]

I came across a very intriguing academic article published by Cato Institute, the famous think-tank for the furtherance of free markets. It said that economists need to construct a moral argument, or at least integrate the idea of morality into their economic models in order to protect themselves from unwitty comments and esoteric arguments coming […]

I’ve just received an e-mail on one of the mailing lists I am subscribed to about the massive staff cut planned at the University of Manchester.  About 171 positions are set for redundancy, out of which 40 tenured academics in the business school. Apparently, the cuts are planned to support some new “strategic” investments in […]

This is a shorter article than usual. I’ve just came back from England, the country I lived in for 2 years. I left exactly before Brexit happened and I watched in shock how the polls were wrong in predicting the catastrophe. Almost one year after the event, I went back to a divided Britain. Brexit […]

An increasing number of doctors in Germany are accepting only patients that are privately insured. In order to have private insurance, you need to earn above a certain threshold (4350 euros per month). They switch to private insurance because it pays better and they can claim more money from, let’s say, a normal visit. So, […]

The European Commission released the 2016 EU Regional Competitiveness index. The regional leaders are clustered in the same old countries that always take the top prizes: Germany, England, Denmark, Sweden, the Netherlands and Finland. Lagging behind are Romania, Bulgaria, and Greece. How competitive is your region? Find data & insights in this @EU_Regional‘s index https://t.co/QP3mJ5z9Eu […]