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Jul 21

Energy innovation call

ENEL, the largest dispatcher and producer of electricity in Italy, launched the ENEL-LAB call with funding for Spanish and Italian innovative energy startups. Dowload the call text.

Jul 21

Other top banks under investigation for LIBOR-EURIBOR rate-rigging

At least four more banks such as HSBC, Deutsche Bank, Société Générale and Crédit Agricole, could be implicated in the scandal of manipulations operated on the primary financial indexes in Europe and the world. Read artciles from Guardian and Sole24ore.

Jul 21

US economic recovery is a dangerous mirage

Unlike the eurozone and the UK, where a double-dip recession is already under way, the US has undergone even more public sector releveraging – effectively stealing growth from the future… Nouriel Roubini, Guardian Business blog

Jul 20

Catastroika

Like in the disastrous sale of public goods in the former Soviet Union and DDR in the early nineties of XX Century, a limited company is in charge of privatise goods and services in Greece, water and energy included. The authors of Debtocracy, a documentary with two million views broadcasted from Japan to Latin America, …

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Jul 19

FP7 calls

Latest FP7 Calls supporting RI in a large number of sectors, have been released: climate change; industrial innovation connected with piloting, demonstration, standardisation and technology transfer; research training and mobility around the European Union and further abroad; sustainable growth in the marine and maritime sectors; technologies for urban areas and cities; combating the threat of …

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Jul 19

Italy’s world records

Taxation at 55% of GDP, says Confcommercio in its latest study on the national economy placing Italy on top of the list of Countries by tax rates (if we exclude Kiribati, Timor-Leste…) . Mr. Befera, Director of Agenzia Entrate, replies: “Even more… around 70% in some cases”! Read more…

Jul 19

HSBC to find a settlement

One of the biggest financial scandals (see an old but dedicated database in our Weblist), a criminal probe into laundering of drug-cartel and other money , according to a WSJ note. Again, unsolved questions present their burden on business making and daily life conditions. How regulators perform their tasks, when such enormous mass of money can …

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