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...What to watch today European Council president Charles Michel and European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen are in Beijing for the EU-China summit....
...“Will you give F-16, F-35 [fighter jets]?...
...Thursday Canada: Prime Minister Justin Trudeau hosts a two-day summit with EU leaders in Newfoundland, including European Council president Charles Michel and his European Commission counterpart Ursula von...
...Most significant was coalescence around “de-risking” economic relations with China, rather than “decoupling” — echoing the calls of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen....
...The relatively short meeting between the two leaders took place less than two months after Sunak and Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, clinched the Windsor framework, a deal on...
...He got a green light from US president Joe Biden to allow countries to supply Kyiv with F-16 fighter jets....
...Faced with the biggest war on the continent since 1945, the two organisations have agreed it’s probably safer to just rely on Uncle Sam’s F-35s, Patriot missiles and nuclear capabilities....
...Last week the Bundestag gave the green light for €8bn of the €100bn to be spent on new F-35 US fighter jets to replace Germany’s ageing Tornados....
...Chess: 2282 (by A von Schmidt, 1900).1 Nb4! (threat 2 Nc6 mate) If Kxf4 or Kd6 2 Nd3 mate. Kasparov solution: 1 Bh5! with 2 Bxg6! hxg6 3 h7 and queens or 1,,,gxh5 2 g6! Chess: 2281 1 . . . f4+!...
...22 and F-35, which both went to Lockheed, said von Rumohr....
...Caan was resistant to the film’s title, and persuaded the filmmakers to substitute a “k” for the “f” on his copy of the script. “I’ll do Elk, but I will not do Elf,” he said....
...Sweet F-16: The Biden administration has expressed public support for Turkey’s purchase of US F-16 fighter jets after Ankara dropped its objections to Finland’s and Sweden’s bids to join Nato....
...Take the issue of fluorinated gas (F-gases)....
...European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen equated Europe’s Green New Deal to “our new growth strategy”. The problem is that reality will take a while to match the sales pitch....
...Greece meanwhile got an F in media freedom this year — and we’ll explore why it slid behind Hungary, ranking last among EU countries in the annual World Press Freedom index....
...In the EU, Ursula von der Leyen, the commission president, has also been pushing a similar Chips Act, aiming to double the bloc’s production of semiconductors to 20 per cent of the global total by the end...
...Buy American: Germany opted this month to replace its ageing Tornado fleet with a batch of US-made F-35 fighter jets, prompting dismay in France....
...A Norwegian F-35 scrambles to intercept an unidentified Russian aircraft that appears off the coast of Finland....
...He goes back further, to the foundational thinkers of neoliberalism, people like F.A. Hayek and Ludwig von Mises, who were less about deregulating the market than protecting it from national politics....
...The F*** YOU 2020 bauble has been created exclusively for House of Voltaire in shatterproof glass, with all profits going towards Studio Voltaire’s community projects and London-based charity Young People...
...Silent Night, her next film — which she describes intriguingly as Love Actually mixed with Lars von Trier — is also made by a female director, Camille Griffin....
...While attempting to demonstrate the strength of its supposedly bulletproof glass, Tesla chief designer Franz von Holzhausen smashed two of the behemoth’s windows with a metal ball....
...(The Guardian) Liberal Guy Verhofstadt wants Von der Leyen to channel the spirit of John F Kennedy in Strasbourg this morning....
...But he’ll also tell you that if you don’t like it, ‘F**k off — there’s the door.’”...
...Talk of business is officially forbidden, but informal “lakeside chats” on pressing issues of the day have been given by everyone from Nelson A Rockefeller to Arnold Palmer, Robert F Kennedy to Wernher von...
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