Following issue n° 77 the GEAB readers won’t be surprised to
see that Saudi Arabia has now surfaced in the serious risk group, first because
explosive social unrest is far from being ruled out in the coming years, and
secondly because the end of the petrodollar and thus the close relationship
between Saudi Arabia and the United States will create a wave of
destabilisation in the country which only prospers thanks to these two factors.
Adapting to the new world certainly isn’t impossible but is going to be
complicated and will require major reforms: in this case, the political crisis
could be healthy for the country. Finally, note that some of the 15 evaluation
criteria are difficult to score for this closed country and, accordingly, our
analysis is more geopolitical and social.
Two people have been killed and scores wounded as Saudi
police clashed with protesting foreign workers in a district of the capital,
Riyadh. A police statement said hundreds of people were arrested in the
Manfuhah neighbourhood...
Tuesday's communique after the Third Plenary Session of the
18th Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee stressed profound
economic reform, with the market to play the decisive role in allocation of
resources...
Wal-Mart Stores Inc on Thursday reported its third straight
quarterly decline in U.S. comparable sales, hurt by a drop in shopper visits,
and the world's largest retailer gave a disappointing profit forecast for the
holiday season...
Japan's economy grew 0.5 percent in the third quarter from
the previous one, slowing from a 0.9 percent expansion in the April-June period
amid weakness in exports and as consumer spending eased, data on Thursday
showed...
Deutsche Telekom AG (DTE), Germany’s biggest phone company,
is lobbying the government to enforce tougher privacy protection by helping to
keep German Internet traffic within national borders...
Bharara, who has been the Justice Department’s top attorney
in Manhattan and the surrounding area for more than four years, said Friday
that if his office continues to be underfunded, it will be good news for
criminals.
Il fallait un coup d'éclat. À la veille de l'ouverture du
congrès du SPD, jeudi à Leipzig, la direction du Parti social-démocrate ne
pouvait pas laisser ses militants penser que tout se passait pour le mieux avec
Angela Merkel, l'adversaire électoral d'hier...
China, Russia and Saudi Arabia were elected today to the
United Nations Human Rights Council over protests by independent rights groups
that the countries aren’t suited to serve on the world rights watchdog...
Five international rating agencies are forming a joint
venture to create a new global ratings agency, ARC Rating, that would cater to
the “new multi-polar world”...
A political group uniting Europe's far-right and anti-EU
forces has moved a step closer after Marine Le Pen and Geert Wilders confirmed
plans to work together ahead of next May's European elections...
Plus d'un mois après son lancement, Obamacare connaît de
gros ratés, et pas seulement techniques. De quoi alimenter encore la polémique
suscitée par la refonte du système de santé américain. Explications...
France and Mr.Hollande are the victims of a plot by the
world of finance and europe political oligarchies because France is the only
country in Europe that is decreasing its public deficit, is improving its
accounts, is perfectly in line with European standards, but has a serious flaw
that no one forgives him: it saved and is saving saving and it intends to save
the welfare state of his nation...
While far from a dictatorship, the United States has
employed a number of paranoid tactics that delegitimize its democracy. This
phenomenon is on display in the fictional TV series "Homeland," which
depicts hysterical CIA agents in a hysterical country...
Le Conseil de sécurité de l'ONU a approuvé l’envoi de 4 000
soldats de l’Union africaine supplémentaires en Somalie, pour une période de
deux ans.faisant passer les troupes de l’Amisom, la mission de maintien de la
paix présente depuis 2007 à 22 000 hommes. Un effort financier qui risque de
gêner l’envoi de casques bleus en Centrafrique...
The European Commission, European Central Bank and
International Monetary Fund signed off on the last part of the 85 billion euro
($114 billion) aid program, paving the way for Ireland - which has met all
major targets - to complete it by the end of the year...
A gold vault that can store 2,000 metric tons, double
China’s projected consumption this year, opened in Shanghai this month as owner
Malca-Amit Global Ltd. seeks to benefit from rising demand in Asia’s largest
economy...
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