Henry Kissinger once complained that when he wanted to talk to Europe, he never knew who to phone.

Data has become the new currency whose value will triple to €1tn a year in the EU by 2020, but the US surveillance scandal has damaged trust and will cost the US cloud industry up to €24bn over the next three years.

DEVELOPERS have had a raw deal. Anybody who built something big during the bubble has been cast as reckless and greedy. It’s not a fair portrayal: many of them got caught up in the madness, carried on a wave that promised to deliver eternal prosperity.

On Good Friday, American-based developer Sean Dunne joined a long list of people connected with property or banking to seek the comfort, the out-of-reach sanctuary, of being declared bankrupt outside of this jurisdiction.

ARGENTINA’S Senate voted overwhelmingly yesterday to scrap a pair of amnesty laws dating to the 1980s that had ended trials for human rights abuses committed during the country’s military dictatorship.