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...Cantilevered bronzed steel staircases, double-height fireplaces and an indoor/outdoor swimming pool with secret views of the games room are just some of the architectural surprises to expect from this remarkable...
...To the evident delight of internal markets commissioner Thierry Breton, the train company pulled out of the bidding shortly after the investigation was announced....
...There is internal opposition to Breton’s policies....
...Washington lifted the steel tariffs until the end of 2023 pending a deal on a mechanism to put tariffs on Chinese steel, which is more carbon intensive....
...Breton estimated that the deal will bring around €250mn of savings to consumers....
...It’s tempting to think OK, if governments are daft enough to create global gluts in semiconductors (as they’ve done in steel, aluminium, shipbuilding and other prestige capital-intensive industries down...
...The steel and aluminium tariffs remain in place....
...Meanwhile, the EU commissioner for internal market Thierry Breton is in Asia to court Tokyo and Seoul as partners for the European Chips Act, pitching Europe as a buffer amid US-China trade tensions....
...It is not directly going to address steel and the section 232 national security tariffs, because that needs a quick resolution. And it is not going to go anywhere near chemical-washed chicken....
...The US says a more comprehensive strategy to address global steel overcapacity is needed before it can lift tariffs....
...And the striped Breton tops have been made by Armor Lux in Brittany since 1938....
...Thierry Breton, the internal market commissioner behind the legislative proposal, said the move will add pressure to member states to reach the digital goals....
...“The pandemic has revealed Europe’s dependencies in certain products, critical materials and value chains,” Thierry Breton, EU industry commissioner, told the Financial Times....
...Dropping US tariffs on steel and aluminium would also help. What’s changed most in EU trade policy since you were at the directorate?...
...The document highlights sectors like aluminium, steel, semiconductors, shipbuilding and automotive as being particularly exposed to foreign subsidies....
...The FT reports from the slopes: Chinese steel imports to Europe are among the products that could be captured by an EU border tax....
...EU may revise ecommerce rules Thierry Breton, the EU commissioner charged with overseeing the digital economy, has told the FT that its ecommerce directive, a 20-year-old set of rules governing internet...
...There’s a common feeling that, as Hogan’s fellow EU commissioner Thierry Breton has said, globalisation has gone too far and Europe should shift towards reshoring and strategic independence....
...In the EU Thierry Breton, the EU’s internal market commissioner (whose views stand, let’s say, at a tangent to those of Big Phil Hogan, the trade commissioner), wants government grants, loans and direct...
...Tellingly, the man who once pronounced “A chair may serve many uses, though not necessarily that of sitting down”, is surrounded by sensible, functional tubular steel furniture....
...Thierry Breton, France’s powerful new industrial chief, will add to his numerous tasks by also leading up Brussels’ “data strategy”....
...High-density wood products that are nearly as strong as steel are going into more high-rises, locking up carbon and offering a technological upgrade....
...Instead it was in France that Freud’s writings, which were read by André Breton in 1916, then widely circulated among his Surrealist colleagues, entered into long-term dialogue with modern art....
...The press is about a tonne and a half of steel and able to exert up to 70 tonnes of pressure (“the equivalent of five and a half London buses!” says Mechie)....
...But while André Breton and his band had a cruel streak running through them, Akomfrah’s vision is laced with humanity. “The bricoleur is the great democrat,” he says....
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