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MAP7 is available! The inevitable takeover of the food markets by state organisations between now and 2020, by Jérôme Defaix

So many of the objectives of the World Food Summit (November 1996), as those of the “Millennium” (2000), haven’t been met and won’t be by the deadlines envisaged. After mixed progress however, from 1970 to 1997, the world famine situation has, again, deteriorated affecting more and more people, in number but also as a proportion of the world’s population. In spring 2008, the wake-up for countries short of food was difficult...  LEAP - Magazine d'Anticipation Politique

Paulson burned by anti-Europe bets: report

Hedge-fund giant John Paulson has told investors that most of his losses this year are due to bets that Europe's debt crisis would deepen, Bloomberg reported, citing a person familiar with the matter...    Market Watch

The state of the UK’s public finances

Recent economic data showing rising government borrowing and falling corporation tax revenues have exacerbated the pressure on George Osborne ahead of December’s Autumn Statement. High quality global journalism requires investment. With the economy stagnating, the chancellor will probably need to admit he is unlikely to meet his target of getting public sector net debt falling as a share of national income by 2015-16, raising the prospect of more years of austerity...    Financial Times

Goodbye UK !

La scène se passe lundi après-midi au Parlement européen à Bruxelles. La commission des affaires économiques et monétaires auditionne Wolfgang Schäuble et Pierre Moscovici, les ministres des Finances de l’Allemagne et de la France sur la situation économique de leur pays respectif et, bien sûr, la crise de la zone euro...    Libération

Bank: Volatility in farm produce prices

This is partly driven by the declining supply of oilseed in the Chinese market. The country's demand for soybean was expected to increase 3.3 million tons from a year earlier but reduced production of Canadian rapeseed will lower imports, according to the bank...   China Daily

Tesco's American dream set to end with nightmare losses

Tesco's bid to take on Wal-Mart in its own back yard has been consigned to embarrassing and costly failure, with the supermarket giant £1bn poorer than before the launch of Fresh -amp; Easy in 2007...   Belfast Telegraph

Israel and Palestine - Barriers to peace

RARELY has Israel looked lonelier. On November 29th only the United States, Canada and the Czech Republic among serious countries backed its arguments at the United Nations’ General Assembly against giving the Palestinians an enhanced status at the UN...   The Economist

Bank of England rejects new action on economy  

Bank of England policymakers have held back from prescribing further emergency medicine to the economy despite gloomy signs that the recovery is stalling...  LiverpoolEcho

Mittal experiences ‘annus horribilis’  

For Lakshmi Mittal, the past year has already turned into something close to an annus horribilis and it has just got a lot worse following the savage spat in which the Indian steel tycoon has become embroiled in France... 

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Record Asia Oil Takeovers Match U.S. Pace for First Time: Energy 

Woodside Petroleum Ltd. (WPL)’s purchase of a stake in Israel’s largest natural gas deposit takes Asia- Pacific oil and gas acquisitions to a record $99 billion this year, tying the U.S. for the first time...    Bloomberg

Recomposition du capital d'EADS : c'est fait ! L'Allemagne entre en force 

Pour préserver le caractère européen d'EADS (cher aux Etats) et préserver le groupe de toute OPA hostile, les négociateurs ont trouvé une parade en s'inspirant de l'accord prévu avec BAE. Il sera écrit dans les statuts du groupe que la majorité des administrateurs au conseil d'administration et des membres du comité exécutif soient européens...   La Tribune

Assad Suffering Reversals in Fighting and Diplomacy

A senior Turkish official said that Russia had agreed on Monday to a new diplomatic approach that would seek ways to persuade President Bashar al-Assad to relinquish power, a possible weakening in Russia’s steadfast support for the government...   New York Times

Israeli-German Relations Strained after Abstention 

Berlin has distanced itself from Israel with the decision to abstain from voting on enhancing the Palestinians' status in the UN General Assembly. Israel had expected a clear "no" vote, but Chancellor Angela Merkel balked at Prime Minister Netanyahu's uncompromising approach to the peace process...      Der Spiegel

   

Putin to visit Brussels as 'Eurasian Union' leader

Russian President Vladimir Putin is expected to attend the EU-Russia summit in Brussels later this month. But he will make sure his hosts welcome him as the representative of the Eurasian Union - Putin's pet geopolitical project, which bears similarities to the EU...   Kyiv Post