Your Europe - Business
Hartmut Buettner @ November 4, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Your Europe – Business is a multilingual practical information and online government services for companies looking for business in another EU country. It is provided jointly by the European Commission and national authorities.
Website Contents:
Starting in business
Setting up a new business
Taking over a new business
Managing a business
Keeping the accounts
Paying taxes
Managing staff
Submitting statistics
Handling financial difficulties
Doing business [...]
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Access to legislation in Europe
Hartmut Buettner @ October 31, 2009 # No Comment Yet
The Guide to the legal gazettes and other official information sources in the European Union and the European Free Trade Association (pdf-file, 244 p., 4.5 MB, English) can be downloaded from the EU Bookshop[1]
free of charge.
The guide provides general information on the legislative sources of EU and its 27 member state, [...]
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IMF European growth projection for Europe
Hartmut Buettner @ October 31, 2009 # No Comment Yet
Europe’s long recession is bottoming is due to strong policy action, a rebound in confidence, and a tentative upswing in global trade according to the IMF’s new regional outlook[1].
Johan Mathisen[2] feels “bolstering potential growth may be the most important element of the strategy to secure a solid recoveryâ€, when looking beyond the short run. [...]
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Bribe Payers Index 2008
Hartmut Buettner @ February 7, 2009 # One Comment
Transparency International (TI) looks at the so-called supply side of corruption with its Bribe Payers Index (BPI) 2008 (pdf-file, 24 pages, 244 KB). It ranks 22 of the world’s most economically influential countries in it according to the likelihood of their firms to bribe abroad.
Companies from Beglium and Canada are least likely to bribe when [...]
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Germany Trade and Invest
Hartmut Buettner @ January 15, 2009 # No Comment Yet
The new German foreign trade and inward investment agency „Germany Trade and Invest“ was formed on January 1th, 2009 following the merger of the German Office for Foreign Trade (bfai) and the Invest in Germany GmbH.
The agency is supposed to promote Germany as a location for industrial and technological investments and to identify investors [...]
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International Business Web-Portal: globalEDGEâ„¢
Hartmut Buettner @ December 13, 2008 # No Comment Yet
globalEDGEâ„¢[1] is a knowledge web-portal for international business professionals from around the world. According to their information the site offers:
Global Resources: more than 5,000 online resources, e.g. Database of International Business Statistics (DIBS), Market Potential Index (MPI) and glossary
Countries: executive memos, statistics, historical, economic, and political conditions on 199 countries around the world
US States: [...]
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Doing Business – Measuring business regulations
Hartmut Buettner @ December 12, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The Doing Business project of the World Bank Group has been tracking regulatory reforms aimed at improving the ease of doing business and their enforcement across 181 economies and selected cities at the subnational and regional level by measuring their impact on 10 indicator sets[1] since 2004. Almost 1,000 reforms have been captured until now.
Covering [...]
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Corruption Perception Index 2008 (CPI)
Hartmut Buettner @ November 14, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The global coalition against corruption Transparency International has issued its Corruption Perception Index 2008 in Berlin on 23 September.
The CPI measures the perceived degree of corruption in the public sector of a country. It is a composite index, which is based on different surveys and analyses. The CPI 2008 compares 180 countries (the same number [...]
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World Investment Directory
Hartmut Buettner @ November 5, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The World Investment Directory of the UNCTAD[1] provides detailed information about foreign direct investments (FDI) in many countries.
The following information about FDI can searched and downloaded by country/economy as pdf-files from URL: http://www.unctad.org/Templates/…
Country Fact Sheets for 188 economies
Each sheet contains the most recent data on FDI flows and stocks, mergers and acquisitions, largest TNCs and [...]
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German Business Expansion in China
Hartmut Buettner @ September 6, 2008 # No Comment Yet
According to a study by the German Foreign Chamber of Commerce in China among their member companies, 90 percent of them like to extend their activities in China during the coming years and more than 40 percent want to set up new subsidiaries during the next few years.
The German investment increased by almost [...]
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German Business Portal
Hartmut Buettner @ September 6, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The German Business Portal of the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology provides foreign business people with a lot of business related information about Germany including links to other websites. Some of the areas covered are:
Business Information
Business Location (industrial sectors and economic Data)
Country Information
Travel
Life
Work
Furthermore, you can exchange your experiences and discuss with traders and [...]
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