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A Chinese Marshall Plan for Europe—Don’t bank on it
November 01, 2011By Joe Quinlan/ GMF/ Washington, DC -- The past three years have been very good for China. No country has emerged from the ashes of the 2008 U.S.-led financial crisis stronger and more influential than China. Beijing’s international reserves are...
Ex-IMF chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is off the hook
August 24, 2011Sexual Assault Charges Against Strauss-Kahn Dropped A New York judge has dismissed sexual assault charges against former International Monetary Fund (IMF) chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, one day after prosecutors moved to have the case dropped. Tuesday...
SEX SCANDAL: Tristane Banon sues Dominique Strauss-Kahn
July 04, 2011Elena Vnorovscaia / Chişinău / Moldova.ORG / -- Dominique Strauss-Kahn won’t get away from judicial issues so easy. Few days ago he was nearly free to go, but today it reveals that journalist and writer Tristane Banon will file a lawsuit Tuesday...
Dominique Strauss-Kahn is released
July 03, 2011Elena Vnorovscaia / Chişinău / Moldova.ORG / -- After a scandal-like court revelation about an accuser's lack of honesty in the Dominique Strauss-Kahn sexual assault case the “Great Seducer” is free to go home. Prosecutors agreed to free...
Case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn collapses
July 01, 2011Elena Vnorovscaia / Chişinău / Moldova.ORG / -- The sexual assault case against former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn is near collapse. It is so because the credibility of IMF chief's accuser reportedly is a very doubtful...
Madame IMF, Cristine Lagarde is the new IMF Head
June 29, 2011Elena Vnorovscaia / Chişinău / Moldova.ORG / -- France's Finance Minister Christine Lagarde, 55, has been named the first woman to head the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The International Monetary Fund's David Hawley has announced that French finance...
Greece general strike: Clashes erupt
February 23, 2011Police in Athens have fired tear gas to disperse demonstrators hurling petrol bombs and stones as a 24-hour general strike grips Greece. The violence erupted during a rally by more than 30,000 angry workers near the Greek parliament. They object to...
The IMF’s thorny transatlantic feud
September 10, 2010by Kati Suominen In a move likely to please China, India, and Brazil, but force a confrontation with Europe, the Obama administration last month blocked plans that would maintain the current size of the board of directors of the International Monetary...
Moldova government forecasts fit World Bank's and Imf calculations
June 23, 2010To the end of the year, Moldova's GDP will reach 67.1 billion lei and will increase by 2.5% comparing to 2009. These are the government forecasts approved on Monday after revising its previous bet of 1.5% growth. At the beginning of June, a 2.5% of GDP...
Greece: Communist protests build up against austerity measures
May 04, 2010Greek public-sector workers have begun two days of strikes and protests against government-proposed austerity measures. The civil servants' protests today come ahead of a general strike on May 5 against the measures the government agreed to implement...