Theo Varenne

Theo Varenne is a CapX contributor.

Articles

Competition

Air France and the road to toplessness

Air France is, to put it bluntly, in trouble. Their market share of domestic, short and medium haul flights is being chipped away by rising and ever expanding low-cost carriers, all while the relatively new airlines based in the Gulf and other developing countries are offering better bargains on long haul flights. That being said, […]

Enterprise

Mobile banking is just the tip of the African technology iceberg

There has been no lack of coverage of the mobile banking revolution that has been gathering ground in Africa for some time now and the inroads it has made into demographics that were long considered ‘unbankable’. But the reality is that mobile technology offers far more services and has helped people in far more ways […]

Politics

Catalan independence: one step forward, two steps back?

With an impressive turnout of 77.4%, yesterday’s Catalan parliamentary elections yielded a mixed results and no shortage of discrepancies, facts and figures that pro-independence and anti-secession partisans alike have already started lobbing at each other. On the independence side, the party led by the current Catalan President Artur Mas, Junts Pel Si, JxSì (together for […]

Investment

The Chinese-European tug of war for business in Iran

With the prospect of international economic and trade sanctions loosening their stranglehold on the Iranian economy, companies from all walks of industry are gearing up for the gold rush they predict will take place once the Iranian economy is, in effect, fully plugged back into the global economy. Just today, a 100 strong French economic […]