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...In retail fashion, there is H&M, which has been talking up its recovery in the Chinese market after a long-running consumer boycott....
...By the old border fence stood a row of rocks marked “K.P” on one side and “K.H” on the other — Kingdom of Prussia and Kingdom of Hanover....
...In March, after the US, EU and UK imposed sanctions on China over the treatment of Uyghur Muslims, Beijing accused H&M and Nike of “boycotting” cotton produced in Xinjiang....
...Think of the very precise, regimented lettering in M*A*S*H. “I love this typography — its form is dictated by function,” says Berryman, who has used them for printwork at Applied Art Forms....
...Fidesz MEP Tamas Deutsch was reprimanded but not kicked out for attacking Weber in December....
...It first came via his friend and tennis partner George H W Bush, a preppy East Coast figure turned Texan oilman. In 1964, Bush was running for the US Senate in Texas. Baker agreed to help....
...Now, it’s an H&M, but the late-19th-century building remains untouched....
...Axel Weber, the former Bundesbank president, stressed that attempted political interference was nothing new....
...The EPP lead candidate Manfred Weber, a Bavarian MEP, has no government experience, unlike all previous commission appointees....
...Under the direction of Helmut Kohl in the 1990s, the EPP threw open its doors to a range of pro-market and centre-right parties, including from newly liberated countries in central and eastern Europe....
...The Hungarian prime minister loves referencing Helmut Kohl because in the 1990s he flung open the EPP’s doors to parties like Fidesz....
...Nicholas Fox Weber (71), writer and journalist In the time it takes Fox Weber to boil the kettle, something reminds him of the Bauhaus....
...(Reuters, Guardian) Copyright mea culpa The EU’s digital commissioner has apologised for a Medium post that called anti-copyright campaigners a “mob” (h/t Laura Kayali)....
...(h/t @BakerLuke) Gideon Rachman makes the case for Emmanuel Macron to have mercy on the UK and instead refocus on fighting the EU’s “true enemies” in Washington and the Kremlin....
...popularity gains of any party since national elections last year, surpassing the anti-Islam Alternative for Germany and largely at the expense of the mainstream CDU and SPD, according to analysis from Pollytix (h/...
...The Finn is likely to have just one competitor for the European People’s party’s (EPP) nomination — MEP and EPP party leader Manfred Weber....
...It has been a stumbling start: they're polling at 1 per cent (h/t Europe Elects)....
...As Der Spiegel reports elements in the CSU — including MEP Manfred Weber — think Ms Merkel's migrant plan should not be dismissed so quickly....
...C H Church Emeritus Professor of European Studies, University of Kent, UK...
...Screenwriters Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber take the book and run with it. This is an Ed Wood funnier than Ed Wood....
...Manfred Weber, leader of the European People’s party in the parliament, said: “The debate around the Strasbourg seat of the European Parliament has been growing among MEPs lately....
...Influences promoting Franco-German entente have been Donald Trump’s election, the British vote to leave the EU and even the mid-June death of Helmut Kohl, the former German chancellor....
...That is precisely what Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher and their followers in Europe — Helmut Kohl, Bettino Craxi and, eventually, François Mitterrand too — would deliver....
...Sir, Your coverage of Helmut Kohl’s political career and personal life was most thorough and in your customary good taste (“Kohl, orchestrator of German reunification, dies”, Obituary, June 17)....
...She joins from rival Weber Shandwick. Smart reads India state banks Banks are intermediaries, like the dabbawalas who deliver lunch boxes to office workers in Indian cities....
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