100 results for Bargains

3 January 2017

Poland is on a global charm offensive. Last year deputy prime minister Mateusz Morawiecki visited London to lure post-Brexit banks to Warsaw; this year it’s expanding its soft power arsenal through the acquisition of a…

11 October 2017

Children of illegal immigrants are still fighting for their right to remain in the US – and continue to be used as a bargaining chip by supporters of President Trump’s border wall. But, New York bureau chief Ed Stocker asks…

2 March 2020

Linda Yueh and Yassmin Abdel-Magied join Monocle to cover the markets’ reactions to coronavirus and San Francisco’s proposed vacancy tax. Plus: Turkey declaring war on Syria and why open borders are its bargaining chip.

30 March 2017

We ask whether the UK is using its security standing in Europe as a Brexit bargaining chip, learn what US secretary of state Rex Tillerson discussed in Ankara today and discuss Taiwan’s relationship with both China and the…

4 August 2016

Why is the Republican party using Iran as a political bargaining tool in the US? We also count the pennies regarding the UK's economic outlook, look into why world leaders are giving the Olympics a miss and find out whether…

22 July 2013

We’re in Tokyo to get the latest on Shinzo Abe’s big win in the upper house elections, discuss how John Kerry managed to get Palestinians and Israelis back to the bargaining table, and we kick off our week-long series on…

2 May 2016

The European Commission is set to recommend visa-free travel for some 80 million Turkish citizens but some say the continent is bargaining with its own standards. Meanwhile, former UK foreign secretary David Miliband dis…

30 May 2019

We discuss a testing 24 hours in Israeli politics for Benjamin Netanyahu, learn why China is using rare-earth minerals as a bargaining chip with the US, find out about 5G mobile’s impending introduction to the UK and get…

16 November 2018

We get the latest from Mexico, where the highest court has overturned a controversial new law aimed at regulating military troops in the war on drug cartels. Plus: a stalled plan to move persecuted Rohingya refugees back…

28 September 2015

Until recently, Colombia has had a reputation for being off limits due to high levels of violent crime – but as that perception has waned, tourism has increased. The Bogotá-based Conflict Analysis Resource Centre (Cerac)…

5 February 2016

For the bargain price of CA$3.2bn (€2.1bn), hardware chain Lowe’s has scooped up Quebec-based equivalent Rona, the latest example of a Canadian firm being purchased by a US business looking to make headway into northern…