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...Another florist, Rachael Barker, whose clients include Jo Malone and Vogue, recalls that her grandmother had carnations in her wedding bouquet in the mid ’50s....
...After an Oscar-winning Hollywood adaptation in 1930, and a British film for television in the 1970s, the classic antiwar novel by Erich Maria Remarque is finally being dramatised in its original German....
...Alex Barker’s FT Magazine piece looks at how the streaming service is restarting production....
...works, telecommunications, transport and the environment for five years before losing out in a power struggle with Joaquín Almunia to lead the socialists into the 2000 election — which they lost to José María...
...Technical training is a gateway for companies to explore broader applications of VR, says Maria Fernandez Guajardo, director of Enterprise AR/VR at Facebook....
...Take Madeline Miller’s Circe, Pat Barker’s The Silence of the Girls (the story of The Iliad, but told from the perspective of queen-turned-slave, Briseis), and Emily Wilson’s translation of The Odyssey....
...“The signalling division of the new Siemens-Alstom seems to be very strong,” says Maria Leenen of SCI Verkehr, “it could be very likely that they have to sell parts from the signalling side.”...
...Alex Barker sets the scene (FT) Election warning signs Wolfgang Münchau sees an unofficial populist coalition potentially prevailing in the European elections next year (FT) The challenge posed by the...
...Email alex.barker@ft.com Twitter: @alexebarker Chart du jour: the euro’s happy shoppers Partying like it’s 2001....
...Theresa May’s decision to deliver an upbeat Brexit speech in the calm, white surrounds of Florence’s Santa Maria Novella church, suggested she had learned a key rule of European diplomacy: tone counts....
...What if Maria marries a Mexican? Would he have EU rights? Will Maria's kids get the usual EU discounts on student fees? And what if her mother fancies living in London?...
...During the legislative squabbling, Maria Fekter, the then Austrian finance minister, slammed Britain as “the island of the blessed for tax evasion and money laundering”, in part because of its trusts....
...In an interview with the FT, Maria Stavropoulou, the director of the Greece’s asylum agency, explains some of the flaws, not least the rights of non-Syrian asylum seekers in Turkey....
...Alex Barker and Duncan Robinson dissect the pact that “may rank as the most ambitious and politically explosive”....
...Reporting by Erika Solomon in Beirut, Alex Barker in Brussels, Sam Jones in London and Kathrin Hille in Moscow...
...SH hampsteadtheatre.com, 020 7722 9301, to November 29 Not About Heroes, Trafalgar Studios, London In September, the vein of first world war centenary productions included the stage adaptation of Pat Barker...
...Maria Leenen, chief executive of SCI Verkehr, a consultancy, said: “My view is that [an Alstom/Siemens train combination] would be a clever step as the markets have changed and the Chinese are much stronger...
...Maria Damanaki, the EU commissioner for fisheries, said the bloc had “no option but to move ahead and take all necessary steps in ensuring a sustainable herring fishery”....
...Maria Fekter, finance minister, has been loath to accept a watering down of Austria’s bank secrecy rules. However, Werner Faymann, the chancellor, said on Sunday that he would back the proposals....
...Brussels has rejected claims that “stifling EU bureaucracy” was to blame for delays to the rollout of superfast broadband to Britain’s regions in an unusual public rebuke of Maria Miller, the UK culture...
...Maria Miller, secretary of state for culture, media and sport, has requested an urgent meeting in Brussels on Thursday to lay out her concerns to Joaquín Almunia, the EU commissioner who enforces state aid...
...said Richard Platte, a portfolio manager for Ave Maria mutual funds....
...But Maria Fekter, Austria’s finance minister, said such opposition appeared to be weakening....
...Or is Nicholas Penny’s remark more of a circus barker’s promise, designed to pull in passing trade?...
...Before the meeting of finance ministers in Luxembourg, Maria Fekter, Austria’s finance minister, said that “under no circumstances will I allow [the tax] to be buried”....
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