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...Many have pointed to the fact that over the past two years, just as spending has surged in the wake of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, 78 per cent of defence equipment acquired by EU member states...
...Jacob Helberg, a member of the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission, said senators were examining the issue and “quickly coming to the same conclusion as their colleagues in the House”....
...A walking pad, Razer’s latest chair, a hi-fi speaker and Apple’s newest MacBook Air is what she recommends, and more. Additional contributions from Benjamin Wilhelm and Irwin Cruz...
...Biden has faced a backlash from some members of his Democratic party over his support for Israel’s war in Gaza....
...As the results came in, Putin thanked volunteers and spoke to reporters at his campaign headquarters near the Kremlin....
...Good morning and we start today in Beijing where Chinese Premier Li Qiang has announced new economic targets as well as a boost to military spending and policies to revive the flagging property market and...
...Ursula von der Leyen began her campaign for a second five-year term as European Commission president, focusing on increased defence spending, improved business competitiveness and green policies....
...As the dust settles on the excitement from Washington this week, we have an analysis today on some of the key aspects of the Securities and Exchange Commission’s climate disclosure rule....
...To his advocates, Gensler, the chair of America’s securities watchdog and one of the most powerful regulators in the world, is just such an individual....
...Dong Jun, 62, replaces Li Shangfu, who was officially removed as defence minister and member of China’s cabinet in October....
...Larry Fink faces a proxy challenge to his dual role as chair and chief executive of BlackRock from a UK activist investor that wants more board oversight of the $10tn money manager’s approach to sustainable...
...Bank of England watchers are expecting a rate cut. The debate here is whether it will have the capacity to start cutting as soon as June....
...The president has featured her prominently in his re-election campaign launch and dispatched her to win support for the campaign at big fundraising events....
...After meeting Xi and Li in Beijing in December, European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen noted the EU’s trade deficit with China had ballooned to €400bn, from €40bn 20 years ago, as she highlighted...
...“We need to provide clarity for Ukraine financing for the next year and coming years . . . the matter is definitely urgent,” Valdis Dombrovskis, European Commission executive vice-president, tells the FT...
...The framing is as attractive in its clarity as the famous phrase from Bill Clinton’s successful 1992 presidential campaign, with Gore as his running mate: “It’s the economy, stupid.”...
...Letta is set to present his report in March during the Belgian presidency of the Council of the EU that begins in January....
...Trump will be criminally convicted in at least one of his four trials, probably two, before the election, and will present it as political persecution by the “Biden crime family”....
...Defence spending: much to be desired An effective foreign policy rests in part on the capacity and willingness to deploy military force....
...” in general and BlackRock chief executive Larry Fink in particular as part of their campaigns for the GOP presidential nomination....
...The FBI confiscated his term paper and his mock-up of the bomb, and the press dubbed him the A-Bomb Kid. As a young man in the early 1980s, he ran twice, unsuccessfully, for Congress in Connecticut....
...Reform of the Stability and Growth Pact, which oversees member state national spending rules, is a commission priority, but has run into intense wrangling between capitals....
...Trump, who is favourite to secure the Republican party nomination for president, has put his legal battles at the heart of his campaign and has used each new case as an opportunity to raise further funds...
...In his defence, COP28 said that Jaber had a 20-year career “in the renewable energy space”, citing his role as chair of Masdar, the state-owned renewable energy company....
...And the Telegraph said she had visited 40 as part of this nascent secretive leadership campaign....
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