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Hello and welcome to the new year.

I started 2022 and went further than usual, outlining what will happen in the next 12 months. Think about it as a forward planning diary for the coming year.

If there is an overall theme—except for the further development of Covid—then it will be national leadership. By 2022, we will be aware of the dignity and vulnerability of our presidents, prime ministers and other heads of state.

Perhaps the most noticeable, at least because her time at work is a milestone that the Queen is about to reach. In February, if her health permits, she will reign for 70 years, the longest among British monarchs. In the next few months, a series of jubilee celebrations have been planned, and the organizers hope that this will raise the mood of many Britons frustrated by the new crown virus, including a race to create a new city. Can it even help the country’s economic recovery?

On the other side of the strait, Emmanuel Macron will strive to maintain his own term through the French presidential elections that begin in April. As France has just assumed the rotating presidency of the European Council, Macron will be able to use the pan-European stage to demonstrate his authority to domestic audiences.

With the November midterm elections approaching, US President Joe Biden has to worry about the power of his party in Washington.It currently looks like a Republican Opportunity End the Democratic Party’s control of one or both houses of Congress.

It will also be an important year for the Chinese leadership, but for different reasons. In October, President Xi Jinping will—unless a major incident— Anointed as modern emperor At the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, a ruling allowed him to hold office until at least 2028.

Hope you will find this framework guide for the next 12 months useful-as always, you can email me at [email protected] to express your views. The normal structure will be resumed next Sunday in the coming week. Happy New Year to you and look forward to returning with your usual weekly guide on January 9th.

Important economic, corporate and world events

January

• Change at the top Johnson & Johnson. Joaquin Duato becomes chief executive officer, succeeding Alex Gorsky as executive chairman

• Interim deadline for the European Commission’s decision to investigate the proposed Kustomer acquisition Facebook

• The World Bank released the Winter Global Economic Outlook Report, which is a semi-annual forecast, focusing on emerging and developing regions of the world

• Australia, Australia and England in the final cricket test match of the Ashes Series in Hobart and the Australian Open in Melbourne

• World Economic Forum Annual Meeting.The annual gathering of world leaders will be held online instead of in Davos, Switzerland

February

• In the United Kingdom, Ofgem will announce an update to its energy price ceiling

• NASA’s X-57 plans to fly for the first time, a small experimental aircraft powered by electricity

• The 55th session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, rescheduled to September 2021

• Britain, the Queen celebrates her Platinum Jubilee, marking the 70th anniversary of the monarch

• United States, Joe Biden’s full-year budget for 2023 will be released

March

• World Trade Organization annual trade statistics released

• Belgium and NATO Foreign Ministers’ Meeting

• China, National People’s Congress Annual Meeting of China’s Supreme Legislative Body

• Mali, runoff for presidential and parliamentary elections

April

• France, the presidential election begins

• G20 finance ministers and central bank governors meet

• The SpaceX Crew-4 mission was launched on the Falcon 9 rocket to send astronauts to the International Space Station

• International Monetary Fund releases world economic outlook

possible

• Colombia, presidential election

• Eurovision Song Contest, Turin, Italy

• Philippines, general election

• Deadlines for local elections in the United Kingdom, England, Wales and Scotland, as well as elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly.In addition, the May Day Bank Holiday was moved to June to celebrate the Queen’s Jubilee

• OECD Economic Outlook Report

June

• French presidential election is over

• Glastonbury Music Festival in the UK will return after cancellation in 2020 and 2021

• In the United Kingdom, the winner announced in the competition the official city status. The capitals of the Falkland Islands, the Cayman Islands and Gibraltar are among the 39 applicants.

July

• Cannes Film Festival, France

• United Nations Foundation Gender Equality Summit

August

• NASA’s Aerosol Cloud and Marine Ecosystem (PACE) mission is about to launch

• United Kingdom, 75th Edinburgh Fringe Festival

• 25th Anniversary of Princess Diana’s Death in a Car Accident in Paris

September

• In the United Kingdom, the Bank of England revoked the legal tender status of the 20 pound and 50 pound banknotes and replaced them with polymer banknotes in recent years

• Opening of the UN General Debate

October

• China, the Communist Party of China begins its five-year National Congress

• International Monetary Fund and World Bank Annual Meeting

November

December