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By Rhod Mackenzie

Germany is facing the exodus of German companies to the United States and China amid rising gas prices in Europe, the Bundestag's budget committee told Izvestia. MP Wolfgang Wiele stresses that the chemical industry has suffered the most: in two years, Germany has lost about a qu...

By Rhod Mackenzie

New Delhi is set to eliminate most tariffs and duties on goods from Switzerland, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein, members of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA), in several economic sectors. The negotiations for this trade agreement lasted 16 years and consisted of 21 ro...

By Rhod Mackenzie

In an interview with the Turkish news channel TRT Haber, Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov, Chairman of the Khalk Maslahaty (People's Council) of Turkmenistan, stated that despite the global economic instability, the country's GDP grew by over 6% last year. This was reported by the Russi...

By Rhod Mackenzie

According to a report by India Ratings and Research, India has the potential to become an upper-middle-income country by FY 2033-36 and a $15 trillion economy between FY 2043 and 2047.
Until 2006, the World Bank classified India as a low-income country. India moved into the lowe...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Reuters reports that the OPEC group and the International Energy Agency (IEA) have different forecasts for global oil demand in the next 16 years.
The IEA predicts a record level of oil demand in 2024, with an increase of 1.22 million barrels per day. On the other hand, OPEC pre...

The Dutch regulator's approval to import enriched uranium hexafluoride (UF6) from Russia for the next three years has caused controversy. Urenco, a government-controlled company, had to clarify that Western nuclear energy cannot do everything that is done in Russia, and that there are contractual ob...