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...Portugal is desperate for this change as its national holiday is on Monday, June 10 and there will be a long weekend, followed by the popular feast of Santo António three days later....
...The dragon in the room Search the conclusions of the first day of the EU summit in Brussels and you will not find any mention of China, writes Sam Fleming....
...As Portugal’s António Costa had said during the debate: If the Mediterranean can’t stop migrants, what chance a fence? Chart du jour: Gas war won?...
...Portuguese prime minister António Costa faces parliament in the wake of yet another resignation from his government under the cloud of scandal....
...But it was not the carpe diem sense of the word they had in mind, write Alice Hancock, Henry Foy and Sam Fleming in Brussels....
...Berlusconi’s second-in-command in Forza Italia, Antonio Tajani, a former European parliament president expected to be tapped as foreign minister, understands how Brussels works and could help Meloni manage...
...In Strasbourg, former European parliament president Antonio Tajani, a close ally of Silvio Berlusconi, quit yesterday to rejoin his former boss in the government led by far-right leader Giorgia Meloni....
...The next area to watch is taxation, and specifically Poland’s persistent refusal to agree to an EU directive setting a minimum effective corporate tax rate of 15 per cent, writes Sam Fleming in Brussels....
...Dmytro Kuleba, Ukraine’s foreign minister, said he had spoken to António Guterres, UN secretary-general, and urged him to make use of mechanisms “to collect evidence and hold Russian war criminals to account...
...Additional reporting by Andy Bounds in Brussels, Eleni Varvitsioti in Athens and Amy Kazmin in Rome Letter in response to this article: Lower speed limits to cut dependence on Russian oil / From Antonio...
...numbers of Ukrainian refugees began fleeing the violence in their country, Brussels is edging towards a proposal to address problems they have experienced swapping their savings into EU currencies, write Sam Fleming...
...What to watch today Jens Stoltenberg, Nato secretary-general, attends a Ukraine meeting at Ramstein Air Base in Germany António Guterres, UN secretary-general, meets Vladimir Putin in Moscow EU liberal...
...But officials admit the devil is in the detail when it comes to drawing up a new regime that punishes Russia, rather than inadvertently pumping up oil prices and Kremlin revenues, write Sam Fleming in Brussels...
...Taxing Timing Last year’s OECD deal agreeing a framework for corporate taxation was never meant to be the end of the battle, write Sam Fleming in Brussels and James Shotter in Warsaw....
...Banking exit: António Horta-Osório has resigned as chair of Credit Suisse after a board investigation found that he had breached coronavirus quarantine rules more than once....
...Rutte was backed by Portugal’s António Costa, who confronted Orban over claims that the EU was an imperialistic project....
...Ever-inching union Brussels will next week attempt to re-energise the drive toward one of its most elusive and long-cherished goals, namely the creation of a capital markets union, write Sam Fleming in...
...Reporting by Guy Chazan in Berlin, Michael Peel and Sam Fleming in Brussels, Ian Mount in Madrid and Miles Johnson in Rome...
...Chart du jour: Banking on Suisse success Veteran banker António Horta-Osório is set to be confirmed as chair of Credit Suisse tomorrow....
...An economist with no previous political experience, Mr Centeno joined António Costa’s Socialist administration in 2015....
...António Costa, Portugal’s premier, said the plan “rises to the challenge that Europe is facing”....
...Portugal’s premier Antonio Costa — who spoke on behalf of the 17 poorer countries that receive development funds — opened the discussion and emphatically declared that the summit could not continue....
...Portugal’s prime minister António Costa called the remarks “repulsive”....
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...Centeno’s new gig António Costa, Portugal’s prime minister, has said he will nominate Mário Centeno, who resigned as finance minister two weeks ago, as the next governor of the country’s central bank....
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