Article: Old Europe's New Shine

Old Europe's New Shine

As European Union leaders meet in London to wrangle over European Union budgets and the Anglo-Saxon versus the French model, global investors have already voted and have been handsomely rewarded.



Many American investors seem to have written off Europe as a quaint low-growth low-return destination. This sort of attitude has caused them to miss some great opportunities. Let?s look at a few.



Ireland was always seen as on the fringe of Europe. Its population of 4 million people (the United Kingdom is 15 times larger) was always viewed as a bit of a laggard. Into the 1960s, citizens had to pay for secondary education, and as late as 1987, Irish gross domestic product was only 69% of the average of the nations that eventually formed the EU. The unemployment rate w...
 

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Old Europe's New Shine

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