Iran has started trading fire after the US and Israel launched strikes that killed Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh reports on what big questions remain in the Middle East.
It is now taking a legit weirdly long time to nominate a new Fed chair.
The combo of
- knows what they're doing
- won't spook the market
and
- is willing to do whatever the boss wants
is clearly hard to find
Germany wants to tie Ukraine's arms purchases financed by an upcoming €90 billion loan from the EU to how much bilateral aid countries give to Kyiv.
Its push is running into trouble.
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La TV francese riporta che l'Ucraina ha smesso di condividere informazioni di intelligence di alto valore con gli Stati Uniti, perché puntualmente finivano in Russia... portando a un vuoto che è stato colmato dall'intelligence francese…
Danish pension fund to dump US treasuries
"The US is basically not a good credit and long-term the US government finances are not sustainable," says chief investment officer
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Left: Mark Carney, "Canada is a pluralist society that works"
Right: Keir Starmer, "We risk becoming an island of strangers"
Carney is a leader
Starmer is a coward appeasing the far right
Carney inspires
Starmer divides
Regno Unito, dalla padella Ue alla brace Trump
Gli USA vogliono colonizzare il Regno Unito con gli standard, soprattutto agroalimentari. C'era una volta un popolo che decise di uscire dalla Ue per essere rule maker e non rule taker
Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask:
"If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"
Trump kills the special relationship
Piece from me on how it feels like 80 years of alliance are dying now
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Mark Carney is explaining the new world in a way that is beyond any other leader I've heard speak. Hard to think of more than a handful of politicians with this level of awareness across Europe as a whole.
Eppure mi pareva che per Gaza…
Dutch pension funds are set to lose a powerful incentive to buy long-term government bonds. Demand from elsewhere doesn’t look high either
Do you think anyone in the UK government considered the EU response to them briefing that they don't want to align on financial services?
Of course not, because you might as well be putting out a big sign saying "we have learnt nothing so keep treating us badly" www.ft.com/content/8d9a...
Su X ci sono sempre più foto di donne e minori spogliati con l’intelligenza artificiale
EU folk saying as I previously did, for the UK to go further will require financial contributions, moves towards freedom of movement, and demonstrating public commitment.
Some sign more UK analysts are understanding this.
Starmer's failure to tell the truth about the Brexit disaster, and his determination to stick with a failed status quo have made him the most unpopular PM since records began.
Piece from me on the crying need for this government to finally level with the public.
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Will the reparations loan to Ukraine be adopted? What consequences if it isn't? And what are the other options on the table?
@sbeverts.bsky.social & @ditrych.bsky.social unpack the strategic stakes of the European Council.
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"We are going in the right direction" to find a solution for Ukraine, Luxembourg Prime Minister Luc Frieden told Euronews in an interview for Europe Today morning show ahead of the European Council on Thursday.
È uno dei Consigli più importanti della storia recente e potrebbe andare per le lunghe: i leader devono decidere se usare i beni russi congelati, e alcuni paesi (tra cui l’Italia) sono contrari
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Since the Russian billionaire sold Chelsea in 2022 under pressure from the British government, the funds from the sale have been frozen. PM Starmer is now allowing him to use it, but only for one cause: to help Ukraine.
Henry James’s Venice was a “city of intense beauty and deep secrets” that he transformed into novels, letters, stories, and essays during his visits in the late 19th century.
Anne Applebaum set out to experience that version of the sinking city:
On Putin, the strategy of exporting chaos, how it works, why it ultimately (hopefully) fails www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The coming year could mark the start of the great geothermal renaissance. Find out why in The World Ahead
At a crunch leaders meeting in Berlin, Giorgia Meloni was sat at Zelenskyy’s elbow and cast as a core European player.
Her fellow leaders hope that message sunk in as the Italian Premier weighs up her position on two key issues this week where she holds a casting vote
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