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...But members of the European parliament attacked the commission in December for releasing €10bn to Orbán in return for judicial reforms, ahead of a summit at which he threatened to veto membership talks with...
...“You can issue these threatening letters — there’s no judicial review.”...
...capacity and reinforce the UK’s current status as a failing state....
...she asks, “that [someone] conducts a ‘special operation’ to kill Putin”....
...The supervisory board’s two other members are Paul Corcoran, the chief financial officer of Nord Stream 2, and Elena Burmistrova, the director-general of Gazprom Export....
...in EU member states as part its pandemic recovery effort....
...In recent months, member states have spoken with commission officials as they drew up their “recovery and resilience plans” setting out the investments and reforms they intend to undertake....
...Former senior official: Their feelings will be as much driven by the course of the pandemic as by real wages....
...Merkel ultimately agreed to the commission raising debt and paying it out to member states as grants, but the Social Democrats in the German finance ministry had to concede that the recovery fund would be...
...As we said in our February [WHO China delegation] report, this virus can have devastating health, social and economic effects but the world is not ready, in capacity or in mindset, to deal with it.”...
...David Page: A rebound in activity in 2021 should mark the starting point of reducing spare capacity in the labour market and a move towards a genuine recovery in the years to come....
...“As the official report into the crisis suggested, the minister could seem concerned with other things than science, such as a desire to keep the market up for farmers,” Sir David says....
...Indonesia’s National Parliament passed a law on September 17 that will greatly undermine the capacity of the country’s Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK). The KPK became operative in 2005....
...Mr Moro has repeatedly denied that he broke any rules surrounding judicial conduct. “I have always said there is nothing to fear in this material,” he told the Financial Times....
...Paul Dales: I would prefer the Bank to be more transparent in how it thinks the economy would perform if government policy is different to the official stance....
...But officials in Brussels deem them a calculated assault on judicial independence, and the European Commission has launched an array of initiatives to stop them....
...However, while doing business in Russia and Ukraine, Midland paid various commissions, as it was common practice.”...
...Sinopec is planning to triple its LNG import capacity by 2023, part of a possible near-tripling of the country’s total capacity....
...The Charity Commission, the government body that regulates charities, opened an urgent probe into the conduct at last Thursday’s dinner, which was revealed by the Financial Times....
...Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron resigned, as did Ukip’s Paul Nuttall, following disappointing campaigns....
...Another analogy would be Paul Kagame. Do you have a model? A: No....
...Out of the five people principally involved in writing David Cameron’s 2015 manifesto, four attended Eton College; George Osborne, the fifth, attended the elite St Paul’s school....
...Given that the OBR’s official projections are already lacklustre for both 2017 and 2018 this only adds to the medium term risks....
...An interconnected world will continue to need a strong IMF as an important component of efforts to promote stability and growth, and as a lender of last resort for countries with balance of payments problems...
...The legislative challenge that most worries Fed officials is a bill backed by Elizabeth Warren, a Democratic senator, and David Vitter, her Republican counterpart, to further limit the Fed’s ability to give...
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