Pierre Briançon

Scott Bessent says 15% global tariff ‘likely’ to be imposed this week US Treasury secretary says duty is set to increase from 10% rate introduced after last month’s Supreme Court defeat

Man without a clue comes clean saying he doesn’t have a clue
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As Trump Bashes Spain, the German Chancellor Looks On

As Trump bashes Spain, German chancellor looks on
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UK Green Party seizes second place in polls as Labour hits record low
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“To be free, you must be feared” - Macron announcing hardening of France’s deterrence policy, including future deployment of nuclear-carrying fighter jets in 7 European countries including Germany and Poland.

LVMH shut down in Russia when the war started. But it kept a storied hotel that serves sanctioned clients When the war in Ukraine started in February 2022, LVMH shuttered its Louis Vuitton, Dior and Bulgari boutiques in Russia days before Europe imposed export sanctions on luxury goods.

How Bernard Arnault keeps serving rich sanctioned clients in St Petersburg
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Bill Gates admits affairs with Russians but denies ‘illicit’ behaviour The billionaire told staff that he had trysts with two women and apologised for his links to the paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein

The nuclear physicist excuse
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Christine Lagarde receives €140,000 from BIS despite payment ban for ECB staff Employees are not allowed to accept money from third parties for work related to the central bank

Christine Lagarde receives €140,000 from BIS despite payment ban for ECB staff - @olafstorbeck.ft.com here:
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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor post-arrest picture hung in the Louvre Everyone Hates Elon, a protest group, placed He’s Sweating Now — taken after King’s brother spent 11 hours in custody — in the Paris museum

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor post-arrest picture hung in the Louvre

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Moscow’s war funding sows seeds of long-term slump Russia is trying to sell $35 bln of seized assets to plug its fiscal deficit as its budget is gasping for air. It can still finance the Ukraine war, but the state’s tighter control of a slowing econom...

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‘Buy European’ push will require delicate handling Brussels may soon propose boosting European industry by forcing governments to favour EU content. Electric cars may have to include 70% local parts to get subsidies, for example. It’s a welcome move, ...

‘Buy European’ push will require delicate handling www.breakingviews.com/columns/cons... @pierrebri.bsky.social

« Bah alors, tu veux pas nous voir ? » : quand la pause déjeuner avec les collègues hante les jeunes salariés Longtemps pilier de la sociabilité au travail, le déjeuner entre collègues est désormais vécu par une partie de la génération Z comme une injonction sociale parfois très anxiogène. Certains n’hésitent...

Et des moins jeunes, souvent, aussi
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Pierre Desproges : A quoi reconnaître un con ? | Archive INA YouTube video by Ina Pierre Desproges. Étonnant, non ?

Toujours utile
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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office - live updates It comes after Thames Valley Police said they were assessing a complaint over the alleged sharing of confidential material by the former prince with Jeffrey Epstein.

Man in his sixties from Norfolk arrested on allegations of gross misconduct
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Early Lagarde exit is key to smooth ECB transition The central bank’s boss may leave before the end of her eight-year term, the FT says. Depriving French President Emmanuel Macron’s successor of a say in picking Christine Lagarde’s replacement is risk...

Early Lagarde exit is key to smooth ECB transition - www.breakingviews.com/columns/cons... @pierrebri.bsky.social

Breakingviews - Hungarian vote is acid test for anti-EU coalition The central European country produces just 1.2% of the bloc’s GDP. However, an April election threatens Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s 16-year rule as well as the influence of Vladimir Putin and Donald...

The Hungarian election on April 12 will be an acid test for the anti-EU-within-EU coalition - Breakingviews:
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Even the Hospitals Aren’t Safe in Iran As the regime imposes a forced forgetting of the massacres in January, it has begun targeting not only wounded protesters but medical workers, who have borne witness to some of the worst atrocities.

Even the hospitals aren’t safe in Iran
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What Is Claude? Anthropic Doesn’t Know, Either Gideon Lewis-Kraus goes inside the A.I. research company.

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Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months Seamus Culleton, who has lived in US for two decades, faces deportation after being arrested on way home from work

Another horror story
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Jimmy Lai’s 20-Year Sentence Follows Beijing’s Playbook on Dissent

Jimmy Lai’s 20-year sentence follows Beijing’s playbook on dissent
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Dude who advised resigns, and dude who decided stays on?
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How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post The Amazon founder bought the paper to save it. Instead, with a mass layoff, he’s forced it into severe decline.

How Jeff Bezos (and Will Lewis) brought the Washington Post down
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Security "guarantees" for Ukraine (read in FT): If the Russians attack, let's give them a three-day headstart.

BlackRock’s Rick Rieder surges ahead in race to chair Federal Reserve Donald Trump has said he plans to name his nominee to run the US central bank ‘in the not too distant future’

Betting markets, what's not to love? ("leading contender...")
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It's tough to admit you've become a provincial market place
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The battle for Kupiansk: inside Ukraine’s victory against the odds
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The Russian refinery Berlin cannot afford to lose Looming US sanctions risk cutting fuel supplies to German capital, prompting government to review Rosneft expropriation

The Russian refinery Berlin cannot afford to lose
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Trump may have Alzheimer’s, says niece
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(He said brain-dead, actually, my bad...)

Fußball-WM 2026: Sollte der DFB über einen Boykott nachdenken? Die Fußballwelt als Staffage: An Donald Trumps Politik wird auch die Weltmeisterschaft nichts ändern. Die Positionierung des DFB scheint klar.

Germany's paper of record (not exactly a paragon of progressiveness) comes out in favor of boycotting the World Cup.

«Mr. Nobody Against Poutine» : Pavel Talankin, un dissident contre les salades russes Chargé par le Kremlin de documenter la bonne application de la propagande dans l’école où il travaille, le vidéaste, contempteur de Poutine, en a tiré un film clandestin édifiant sur le lavage de cerveau des nouvelles générations.

«Mr. Nobody Against Poutine» : Pavel Talankin, un dissident contre les salades russes

Chargé par le Kremlin de documenter la bonne application de la propagande dans l’école où il travaille, le vidéaste, contempteur de Poutine, en a tiré un film clandestin édifiant sur le lavage de cerveau