African nations are planning to set up a Continental Free Trade Area (CFTA) by the end of 2017. This would create a single continental market for goods and services, and free movement of business persons and investments, accelerating the establishment of a continental customs union. Leaders at the African Union Summit agreed to this plan during…

The other night I watched a debate on TV between two contenders for the leadership of the Irish conservative party (Fine Gael), Leo Varadkar and Simon Coveney. One gave a typical one-nation paternalistic rant while the other represented the usual market driven economy made famous by the late Mrs. Thatcher. But one got the impression…

“Icebreakers” are entrepreneurs that defied the odds of extraordinary difficult contexts to become many times, pioneers’ of entrepreneurship in “non-business friendly” environments where private endeavor is discouraged or even prosecuted. Entrepreneurs like Ivo Boscarol from Slovenia, who wrote himself, in the 80’s, the first regulations of the industry in his country to become the CEO…

The surprising rise of the U.K's Labour Party in the polls opens the possibility of an upset in the U.K.'s general elections which would be a good thing for Europe but more than anything else shows business that it needs to be ready for different scenarios.