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...In Europe Irish MPs return from their Easter recess on Tuesday. Chief among their priorities will be replacing Leo Varadkar, who unexpectedly stepped down as premier at the end of March....
...Chart of the day Anyone cracking open an Easter egg this year may notice two things: not only is it a lot more expensive, it’s also smaller....
...Monday UK: House of Commons and House of Lords return from their Easter breaks along with the Scottish and Welsh parliaments US: Jury trial for Donald Trump is scheduled to start....
...He joined former armed forces minister James Heappey, in making an announcement before MPs departed from parliament for Easter recess triggering a mini-reshuffle of Sunak’s team....
...“We are forever coming up with new ideas and killing them if they’re not appropriate,” said David Newns, head of Six Digital Exchange, which issued the first digital bond on a distributed ledger in November...
...Monday France, Germany, Italy, UK: Easter Monday holiday....
...This weekend, millions of people will celebrate Easter. For Christians, the passion of the Christ signifies redemption through divine self-sacrifice....
...“They could have wrapped this up before Easter,” said one former cabinet minister. “Or they could have done it last week.”...
...And as people gorge on their Easter eggs, few will give so much as a passing thought to a religious figure whose sacrifice for others — for all mankind, in fact — this most sacred of Christian festivals...
...In a Fox News interview on Easter Sunday, he vowed to introduce a new Ukraine package “right after” Congress returned from the break....
...Good afternoon and happy Easter weekend everyone. This being the season of redemption and resurrection, I thought I’d start with a couple of cheerier Brexit stories for once....
...David Austin potted roses are now £30 each; herbaceous perennials in 2 to 3-litre pots top £10; anything in flower is twice the price, including good old Jacobs Ladder, or polemonium at £15 per plant....
...Happy Easter folks! [MUSIC PLAYING] You can read more on all these stories at FT.com for free when you click the links in our show notes. This has been your daily FT News Briefing....
...British bass baritone Christopher Purves sings Saul, the Old Testament king driven mad by his envy of the young David (Danish countertenor Morten Grove Frandsen)....
...After Baldwin’s death, his brother David lived in the house until 1996. He died in the US a year later....
...[MUSIC PLAYING] Lucy FisherSo we’ll mark the government’s report card as it gets to the Easter break shortly....
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...said there was still a need for a cross-sectoral body to lobby the government on behalf of corporate Britain, but the CBI — which has been frozen out by ministers since the revelations first broke before Easter...
...The latter begin on the Friday before Palm Sunday and continue until Easter Sunday, and are accompanied by classical music concerts across the city, including organ recitals in the church of San Ginés....
...David Sabow, a senior executive at SVB in the US, joined HSBC “within days” of the UK deal, according to the lawsuit, which was filed in a federal court in California....
...Inspiration comes from Tom Ford, Lenny Kravitz, David Bowie and Studio 54. “I’d like to think that I live a very glamorous life,” says Smith....
...Over the three hours or so that JS Bach’s St Matthew Passion unfolded in the Wu Tsai Theater at the lavishly upgraded David Geffen Hall in New York’s Lincoln Center, I found it curious, if not ironic, that...
...There will be no disruption to the Week Ahead service, however, as I am leaving that duty in the very capable hands of my colleague on FT Edit David Hindley....
...Welcome to the Easter weekend....
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