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...Rishi Sunak, UK prime minister, has quashed suggestions from European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen that the “direction of travel” is for Britain to eventually return to the EU....
...He credits the late Michael von Clemm, Credit Suisse First Boston chair, with the original “vision” that the Wharf could be a financial centre, and Michael Heseltine for his key role as a longtime cabinet...
...European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen visits Bosnia and Herzegovina. Central banks: Fabio Panetta becomes governor of Banca d’Italia, succeeding Ignazio Visco....
...Von der Leyen will meet Sunak, Britain’s prime minister, to discuss the issue on the sidelines of the G20 summit in India this weekend....
...“Brussels and the masters of the dollar-financed leftists attack the sovereignty protection law because it aims to stop foreign influence via [US billionaire George] Soros,” he said in a post on Facebook...
...Donald Trump is much less sympathetic to the EU than George Bush Jr certainly....
...Another EU official said talk of a draft deal was being viewed as “UK spin” that was apparently designed to put pressure on von der Leyen to intervene....
...George Benjamin’s fourth opera, Picture a day like this, will be given its world premiere on July 5 at the Aix-en-Provence festival....
...On government billboards plastered across Hungary, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Alex Soros, the son of US financier George Soros, are portrayed with the message: “Let’s not dance...
...Additional contributions from George Russell and Benjamin Wilhelm...
...At the time Ursula von der Leyen heralded the so-called Windsor framework agreement as “good news” for EU and UK scientists and promised to set to work “immediately” on a deal to allow the UK to participate...
...Nick von Westenholz, director of trade at the National Farmers Union, acknowledged that the government needed to protect consumers from price rises, but said that yet another delay would exasperate many...
...In 2019, Orbán launched a billboard campaign against the EU, depicting then-European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker as a puppet of Hungary-born billionaire philanthropist George Soros....
...stressed that the government “remains committed to reducing net migration”, adding that prime minister Rishi Sunak would raise the “challenge” of illegal migration with European Commission president Ursula von...
...For Sunak and von der Leyen this was a moment to reset UK-EU relations....
...Sunak and von der Leyen hope the deal to smooth trade between Northern Ireland and the rest of the UK will end years of grim post-Brexit ties between London and Brussels....
...When I slip them on, I imagine this was how the Duke of Wellington felt slipping on the first pair of boots made to his specifications by cobbler George Hoby on St James’s Street in the early 1800s — and...
...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....
...Similar reservations have been aired by Viola von Cramon-Taubadel, a German Green politician who sits in the European parliament....
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...Another said Sunak was carefully studying the £6bn plan B, drawn up by science minister George Freeman, for Britain to develop a global science collaboration plan....
...Tony Barber Will Ursula von der Leyen secure a second term as European Commission president? Yes, with some effort....
...The UK prime minister spoke to Ursula von der Leyen, European Commission president, on Friday, in a new attempt to nail down a deal, with speculation rising that it could be announced very soon....
...DRC: 50th anniversary of ‘Rumble in the Jungle’ heavyweight championship boxing match between George Foreman and Muhammad Ali on October 30....
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