European ports contend with slow economic growth, geopolitical impact

The #economic centre of gravity is slowly refocusing on regional #developments in #SouthAmerica and #Asia, and seeing the mature consumer #markets lose out to the emerging #economies, but that long-term change is slow and far from linear.

Global economic growth forecasts remain on the low side, but regionally the catch up of Asian economies persists with #European stagnation seeing its ports slide down the volume table in favour of ports in the #MiddleEast, #India and the Far East, where #China remains dominant.

Not only do ports and terminals in have to contend with the challenges faced in fast developing countries, but the #geopolitical scene is also taking its toll, with both #US and European #ports affected in the short to medium term.

English https://www.seatrade-maritime.com/ports/european-ports-contend-slow-economic-growth-geopolitical-impact

French https://www-seatrade--maritime-com.translate.goog/ports/european-ports-contend-slow-economic-growth-geopolitical-impact?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=fr&_x_tr_hl=fr&_x_tr_hist=true

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Africa & #Byzantium

#Art #history has long emphasized the glories of the Byzantine Empire (circa 330–1453), but less known are the profound #artistic contributions of North Africa, #Egypt, #Nubia, #Ethiopia, and other powerful African #kingdoms whose pivotal interactions with Byzantium had a lasting impact on the #Mediterranean world. Bringing together a range of masterworks—from #mosaic, #sculpture, #pottery, and #metalwork to #luxury objects, #paintings, and religious #manuscripts—this exhibition recounts #Africa’s central role in international networks of #trade and #cultural exchange. With artworks rarely or never before seen in public, Africa & Byzantium sheds new light on the staggering #artistic achievements of #medieval Africa. This long-overdue exhibition highlights how the continent contributed to the development of the #premodern world and offers a more complete #history of the vibrant #multiethnic societies of north and east Africa that shaped the artistic, #economic and cultural life of Byzantium and beyond.

English https://www.metmuseum.org/fr/exhibitions/africa-byzantium
French https://www-metmuseum-org.translate.goog/fr/exhibitions/africa-byzantium?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=fr&_x_tr_hl=fr&_x_tr_pto=wapp

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Order ab Chao

All of the economic crises since 1989, and the economic crises to come, are quite literally created in order to weaken the natural resistance to the structural #globalization sought by #ClownWorld. This is why we keep hearing about how #defeat in #Ukraine means not only defeat, but the end of the #neoliberal #world-order.

From PRINCES OF THE YEN:

The #Fed, the #EuropeanCentralBank, and the #Bank-of-Japan together set #monetary #policy for a zone that accounts for 80 percent of the world’s #industrialized #economic activity. Rarely, if ever, can so much #power have been wielded by such a small number of institutions sitting outside the democratic process.

Until 1997, the macro-economic performance of #Thailand, #Korea, #Indonesia, #Malaysia, #Singapore, and #Taiwan was widely praised by commentators, academics, and policymakers alike… It is therefore relevant to find out whether the #Asian #crisis was really the result of the Asian system. A thorough study of its causes reveals that, quite to the contrary, it was the policies “recommended” by the #US #Treasury, the #IMF, and the local Asian central banks that resulted in the Asian crisis. While the Asian central banks previously had had no legal #independence and few legal powers, after the Asian crisis almost all of them had become independent and #unaccountable for their actions.

#ClimateChange and the next economic crisis, which is now teed up nicely by the post-2008 #expansion of #unproductive #credit, are supposed to justify the #emergency #measures that Clown World is advertising as its #GreatReset. The Great Reset is nothing less than the plan to expand what was successfully accomplished in #Europe, #Japan, and the Four Tigers of Asia to the entire #world.

That plan is what #Russia and #China are resisting so staunchly and so successfully. And that is also why the clowns are panicking as the defeat of Ukraine becomes increasingly undeniable, because their entire system depends upon everyone accepting economic assertions that are obviously and entirely false as well as inevitabilities of progress that are actually nothing more than blatant and baseless lies.

Both the Chinese and the Russian leadership have seen through the lies and rejected the corruption. It’s only a matter of time before the rest of the world does as well. #RobertAntonWilson, among others, warned us of this, but we were too caught up in the false intellectual #divide of #left vs #right and #liberal vs #conservative to grasp the full extent of the implications.

Draft continental #strategy on free movement developed

Free Movement of Persons is an integral part of the #African #integration and along with the African #Passport is one of the flagship projects of #Agenda #2063.

Pursuant to this goal of integration, in January 2018 the Protocol to the Treaty establishing the African #Economic #Community relating to free movement of persons, right of residence and right of establishment was adopted by the #AU Assembly. This was followed in March 2018 with the Agreement Establishing the African Free #Trade Area, the Protocol on Trade in #Goods, the Protocol on #Trade in #Services and the Protocol on Rules and #Procedures on the #Settlement of #Disputes.

As a follow up to this, the #AfricanUnion (AU) and the Regional Economic Communities ( #RECs ) have developed a draft joint continental strategy to accelerate the Right of Entry for the Protocol to the treaty establishing the African Economic Communities relating to the Free Movement of Persons, Right of Residence and Right of Establishment. The strategy aims to ensure that RECs and Member States popularise and promote the adopted African Passport as one of the key #mechanisms through which free movement of persons will be realised.

English https://au.int/en/articles/draft-continental-strategy-free-movement-developed
French https://au-int.translate.goog/en/articles/draft-continental-strategy-free-movement-developed?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=fr&_x_tr_hl=fr

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