Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Chinese economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. China is considering including services in a multibillion-dollar subsidy programme to stimulate consumption, according to officials and academics, as the world’s second-largest economy struggles to boost chronically weak domestic demand. The programme, which would seek … Read more
In IDBI Bank Ltd v Axcel Sunshine Ltd & Anor [2025] EWHC 442 (Comm) claimant is an Indian bank which, at the relevant times, operated outside India via a branch in the Dubai International Financial Centre – DIFC. Defendants are a company incorporated and registered in the British Virgin Islands, and a company incorporated and … Read more
On 6 December, Romania’s constitutional court annulled the first round of voting in the country’s presidential election. Alexandru Damian writes the decision will have profound consequences for Romanian politics and public trust. The unprecedented annulment of Romania’s presidential election, decided while the diaspora was voting for the second round and just two days before polling … Read more
On 22 October 2024 the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR or ‘the Court’) issued a landmark judgment in the case of Kobaliya and Others v. Russia. It found that the Russian legislation on ‘foreign agents’ – imposing huge restrictions on the rights of Russian non-governmental organisations, media organisations and individuals designated as ‘foreign agents’ … Read more
It was not all that long ago that the idea of linking refugee protection to the impacts of climate change seemed not only embryonic, but futuristic. Yet, over the course of the past decade, an important body of case law and guidance has developed that shows clearly how, in the right factual scenario, people could … Read more
