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Ireland blacklisted as tax haven

Ireland has been added to a ”blacklist“ of tax havens by the Department of Federal Revenue of Brazil just weeks after the European Commission ordered Apple to repay €13 billion in back taxes to...

Reassurance from reinsurance at the Fairmont

Reinsurance firms meeting in Monaco this week at the 60th edition of Les Rendez-vous de Septembre believe that premiums will more or less stabilise in 2016 after five years of decline. The $600...

Tax bonus for French middleclass

The French government is still promising a tax bonus for the middle classes, to be announced later this week, although the state’s generosity appears to have been subject to downward adjustment....

UK still ‘open for business’ says Barclays

The Barclays UK Prosperity Map released on August 30, 2016 reported that every region in the UK is more prosperous, despite the uncertainty of the previous year. Other key points in the annual...

Monaco Resources Agribusiness Division invests in Bonum

Agricorp Invest SA, a unit of the Monaco-registered group Monaco Resources, has acquired a majority stake in the Macedonian mushroom and vegetable processing plant, Bonum, the company said....

Human chain to block Calais motorway

Anyone thinking of driving to the UK next week may have to change plans, after shopkeepers, businessmen, farmers and police unionists in Calais pledged to block “indefinitely” the motorway...