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The Electricity Market Design in a Period of High Energy Prices

Europe is experiencing very high energy prices, due to the global economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the conflict in Ukraine. These high energy prices have widespread consequences for a variety of markets, including the gas and electricity markets. Throughout Europe, both of these markets are experiencing record high prices and instability, …

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The Decade of Disputes & the impact of litigation funding

As the “decade of disputes” continues, research by FTI Consulting has found that third-party litigation funding will support the rise of high-profile claims. 2020 marked the beginning of a decade of corporate disputes, according to FTI Consulting’s survey of over 2,000 business leaders. Now, with the global litigation funding investment market expected to reach $13 Billion …

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A Test of Resilience: COVID-19 and the Business of Europe’s Green Deal

The impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic is clearly enormous in health, social and economic terms. It has also had an immediate environmental impact which may play out over the longer term, with a number of political repercussions. How resilient is the European Union’s Green Deal proving to be? What are the implications for business, …

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Discover our regional analysis for the EU2019 elections

Potential Scenarios The Good: Improvement Europeans move forward from Brexit with an increased positive sentiment toward the Union leading to a wider representation of pro-European parties in the European Parliament Anti-establishment parties fail to deliver on expectations. Stability in the European Parliament with traditional pro European political groups reenergized The Bad: Paralysis A more splintered …

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