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...After a 30-year career as a teacher in Houston, Lee Ray Haynes returned to his birthplace in Eagle Pass in 2014....
...European trade commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis told the Financial Times he was in favour of postponing the reimposition of retaliatory tariffs on goods such as bourbon whiskey and Harley-Davidson motorbikes...
...Olaf Scholz in Germany is seeing his party’s poll numbers in a fairly unhappy place and his three-way coalition in almost perpetual infighting. And he will look at elections in 2025....
...His address will have many audiences — one in particular in the Kremlin....
...His appointment as Open Society president in 2021 was not without controversy....
...Poland’s man in Kyiv The only EU ambassador to remain in Kyiv throughout the war has a very matter-of-fact attitude about it. Bartosz Cichocki says he wanted to stay — and so did his government....
...His bosses in government included Nicolas Sarkozy before he became president and Thierry Breton, now the EU commissioner for internal markets....
...It will take a €200mn investment in a refinery to convert it to lighter crude, as well as increased capacity in the Adria pipeline from Croatia....
...In Brussels the offers by Duda and the PiS were greeted as the most promising proposals from Poland in many months, with one official spying “a little bit of light at the end of the tunnel”....
...Biden’s speech capped a three-day visit to Europe that included a summit with Nato, G7 and EU leaders, as well as a visit to US troops stationed in eastern Poland close to the Ukrainian border....
...A gas pipeline linking Poland with Norway’s gasfields, with an annual capacity of 10 bcm, is due to open in October....
...and energy policy officials meet in Washington Poland’s President Andrzej Duda meets EU and Nato officials in Brussels ECB president Christine Lagarde speaks in the European parliament . . . and later...
...But this time, officials have said they are preparing to take as many as 1mn Ukrainians. Poland’s border force said on Tuesday that 410,000 people had entered the country since the start of the war....
...Officials in Krakow, Poland’s second city, warned that it was “slowly losing the capacity to take in more waves of refugees”....
...as his forces have been bogged down for a month, might reach for a deal or limit his goals in Ukraine....
...A US official accompanying Joe Biden during a trip to Belgium and Poland said that the US was not treating the Russian statements as new and that it would have to see if anything changed tactically....
...James Shotter in Warsaw....
...The fictional MI6 officer James Bond gropes his secretary, spices his operations with extravagant liaisons and encounters few female spies, the most famous being the dowdy Russian counter-intelligence officer...
...But, as one senior EU official put it: “A deterrent is only as useful as you can credibly make it true.”...
...As one diplomat put it, the C in TTC doesn’t formally stand for China, “but maybe it should”....
...The secretary expressed his deep appreciation for Poland’s vocal support for neighbouring Ukraine’s sovereignty and territorial integrity....
...Important clients in countries such as Poland and Germany cancelled orders with the Zhejiang-based company....
...Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania all border Ukraine. The EU’s dependence on Russian gas has long been seen as a brake on the bloc’s ability to wield punishing sanctions on Russia....
...corruption in a number of countries, including Poland and Hungary....
...Yesterday evening, commissioners Valdis Dombrovskis and Paolo Gentiloni updated the European parliament on where things stand....
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