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...Whereas a lap-pool swimmer is easily recognisable by their distinctive V-shaped torso (and by the mess of fins and hand paddles they tend to carry around in those black mesh bags), a seasoned open-water...
...“It is a danger to the European Union,” said Iratxe García Pérez, president of the Socialists and Democrats group to which German chancellor Olaf Scholz belongs....
...Website; Directions— Marie Veeder, London The Fleming, Hong Kong An independent hotel must have a distinct personality. The Fleming fits the bill....
...Some asylum seekers are staying in a squat on Brussels’ Rue de la Loi, just next to the headquarters of De Moor’s party, CD&V....
...Von der Leyen and Sunak made the announcement in front of a portrait of King George V, who inaugurated Northern Ireland’s parliament in 1921 with an appeal for unity....
...Lupus sufferer Beatriz Garcia applied for a hospital abortion in 2013 after doctors diagnosed her foetus with a fatal abnormality....
...Alicia García-Herrero, chief economist for Asia-Pacific at Natixis, warned against expecting a “V-shaped recovery” from the world’s second-biggest economy and biggest consumer market if President Xi Jinping...
...García Andrés said it was not surprising that Spain should encounter delays, given that it was pioneering the use of the funds with Brussels....
...“This idea of a V-shape [recovery] that you can see in the first semester of 2020 is now completely impossible,” said Mr Gentiloni....
...“This is the moment in time in which a V-shaped shock can morph into a U and then an L, and this is what we above all have to avoid.”...
...A star trio of women’s voices — Julia Bullock, Renée Fleming, Kelli O’Hara — tug at the heartstrings with “Migratory V”. Part two, Work, follows on February 24; Love in April; Faith in May....
...Iratxe García Pérez, the president of the left-of-centre S&D group, echoed the need for solidarity, urging MEPs to put aside “Cassandra-type messages” and to work together....
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...“The idea of a V-shaped recovery is an illusion and I never believed in it,” Mr Gentiloni told the Financial Times in an interview. “The general escape clause will remain in place [for] all of 2021....
...Additional reporting by Sam Fleming in Brussels, Christian Shepherd in Beijing and Henry Foy in Moscow...
...Orban’s Hungary has broken ranks and embraced Russian and Chinese vaccines not approved by the European Medicines Agency, while the Czech Republic has said it intends to approve use of the Russian Sputnik V...
...Fleming said to Wilding, “I bet you couldn’t get boxes made like that again.”...
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...For example Iratxe García, S&D president in the European Parliament, will on Monday join with fellow social democrats Christophe Rouillon and Sergei Stanishev to call on the eurogroup to come forward with...
...He is also encouraged by a “V-shaped” recovery in Asia, its largest market, and less dire forecasts for UK consumers....
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...“The hardest thing to do was marry the protected facades with the interior floors and halls.”v The residences open in mid-September, the culmination of years of work at Lamela’s company....
...Monday’s Big Read from Miles Johnson in Rome, Sam Fleming in Brussels and Guy Chazan in Berlin analysed the “massive shift” in Euroscepticism in Italy over a perceived lack of support from its northern neighbours...
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