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...Czech President Petr Pavel blames the late — or failed — delivery of expected western equipment to Ukrainian armed forces for the stalling of their counteroffensive....
...“He’s behaving like a pound-shop Trump,” said Angela Rayner, deputy Labour leader. One committee member said: “It has been horrible....
...But Reynders said that was a stalling tactic he had encountered in discussions with Hungarian counterparts. “First, you need to implement [the ECJ rulings], in Romania, stop with the special section....
...Angela Merkel’s botched succession Angela Merkel will go down in history as one of Germany’s most successful chancellors, but she failed at one of the most basic jobs for a senior politician: keeping her...
...Yet with the buildout of renewables stalling, gas as a bridge fuel to a low-carbon future began to loom even larger in the energy mix....
...The Greens have been critical of Angela Merkel’s strategy of friendly engagement with China, and they want to load up trade deals with concerns about human rights and the environment....
...It was stalling on the UK’s continued membership of Horizon, the science research network under which Brussels funds cross-border research projects....
...The summit is also likely to be Angela Merkel’s last as chancellor of a sitting government before September’s federal elections. It may well be marked by a final, dramatic Franco-German gambit....
...The FT has the scoop on informal discussions between some capitals on options for retaliation including stalling on granting UK financial services equivalence recognition....
...last week’s jobs report revealed the US economy shed 140,000 posts in December, leaving the unemployment rate at a stubbornly high 6.7 per cent and exacerbating fears that the new coronavirus surge is stalling...
...Hungary and Poland blocked the progress of the EU’s €1.8tn budget and recovery package at a crucial meeting of diplomats on Monday, stalling the centrepiece of the bloc’s economic response to the pandemic...
...Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, and French president Emmanuel Macron, stood side by side at a press conference, to offer Mr Navalny medical services and asylum....
...(Derek Brower) Data drill The oil market recovery after the easing of global coronavirus lockdowns is stalling, says Kayrros, a data analytics company....
...The requirement for unanimity means any two countries can stop action against each other — as Hungary and Poland have pledged to do, effectively stalling the processes targeting them....
...China’s “wolf warrior” diplomats over the past two months have replaced courtesy with intimidation as international efforts to find the source of the virus in China appear to be stalling....
...Predictions of the results should start appearing as Emmanuel Macron, Angela Merkel and their counterparts are having dinner together....
...It has also helped that the country has a well-oiled government, led by Angela Merkel, a physicist, that has avoided the screeching policy zigzags seen elsewhere....
...He put too much faith in Germany’s social democrats, the junior partners in Angela Merkel’s government, as a pro-European counterweight to the chancellor....
...When Angela Merkel speaks, it usually pays to listen carefully....
...Brexit deal reopens Angela Merkel, the German chancellor, has said that she has “no intention ofchanging the exit agreement”....
...(WaPo) After Angela Don’t miss Guy Chazan’s report from Halle, the fourth stop in an eight-city tour by three candidates to succeed Angela Merkel as leader of the Christian Democratic Union, a party that...
...plan to appoint a representative body, which Damascus has been accused of stalling....
...(FT) No delay For Theresa May’s deal to pass, Brussels must remove the option of stalling Article 50, argues Wolfgang Münchau in the FT....
...Italy had escalated tensions by stalling the summit until a migration deal was reached....
...It will be an acutely sensitive moment for prime minister Theresa May, who faces growing pressure from ministers, MPs and grassroots members over her stalling Brexit strategy....
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