Good morning!
It is the seventh of the seventh month, the new week has started again. We are already monitoring the economic and financial news here today.
Last weekend brought the Financial Times Outside that consultancy firm BCG participated in a plan to evacuate Gaza. A handsome unveiling, which we already wrote about this article. But on Sunday evening the British business newspaper continued for a while: the Tony Blair Institute, a non-profit organization of the former British Prime Minister with the official goal of improving the world, was involved in controversial plans to develop Gaza into a kind of trading clave, Thus the newspaper.
According to the plans, the intention was to attract private investors who would make Gaza a kind of Dubai after a large part of the local Palestinian population had left. An employee of the Blair Institute is said to have drawn up a plan for this. The institute itself says that “the suggestion” of the Financial Times is incorrect.
What else did we notice?
- This is the week in which it should happen: The deadline will expire on Wednesday Donald Trump wants to have commercial agreements with countries, otherwise hefty import duties will apply. But the government also seems to be open to postponement until August 1, so report The Wall Street Journal.
- The European Union and China Be upset about a final statement of a top that must take place in mid -July. According to the FT Would like China to make a statement about joint efforts to combat climate change, but the EU only wants to endorse this if China takes more measures. The top is already surrounded by tensions and differences of insight, for example about the Russian raid in Ukraine.
- A claim foundation has started a case against ING and Bunqto get more than 40 million euros back for victims of suspected gold fraud. Various investors would have been scammed by the Gold Investments company, among others: they were being used to invest in gold that still had to be won in Tanzania and Ghana, but received gold that had been bought in Alkmaar, thus Het Financieele Dagblad. That shopping happened again with money from new investors. The point of the claim foundation is that the banks would have already had suspicions of this (pyramid) fraud, but did nothing. A criminal investigation by the Public Prosecution Service has been running into the issue for years.