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...Cheer them on from the sidelines if you don’t fancy taking a freezing festive plunge yourself....
...More on central banks: Mario Draghi, former president of the European Central Bank, told the same event yesterday that the EU would experience a recession by the year end....
...The Indian government issued some 6,500 visas to allow Pakistani fans to come and cheer for their team. For this match in Ahmedabad, however, the Modi regime refused to grant visas to Pakistani fans....
...And I need to like, you know, cheer up a little bit and, you know, if listeners would like to send me some happy news my email’s in the show notes. But Katie, I’m sorry to say I’m short civilisation....
...“We have been faced with great challenges the EU was not prepared for,” said Meloni, amid the constant cheers of her Brothers of Italy lawmakers....
...Around him, derivatives traders dressed as Super Mario and insurance brokers in Hawaiian shirts battled to remain vertical among a sea of human flamingos....
...On Thursday Macron, Olaf Scholz and Mario Draghi belatedly visited Kyiv together....
...But after two tough years of Covid-19, Di Sienna, 45, sees little to cheer....
...And it is another reason for Italians to cheer. ben.hall@ft.com...
...Mario Draghi, Italy’s prime minister, was forced to leave the Nato summit on Wednesday, a day early, to attend a crisis cabinet meeting....
...The place is called Ave Mario, which led me to imagine, not entirely inaccurately, Catholic iconography or something to do with Super Mario Bros....
...So a ruling this week by another European court might bring Brexiters some cheer, writes Jude Webber in Dublin....
...Ms Lagarde is largely seen as an advocate of outgoing ECB chief Mario Draghi’s stimulus policies....
...Eurogroup president Mário Centeno told the FT that the eurozone would use the “full flexibility” of its budget rules....
...The income has been declared and Goulard has the endorsement of Guy Verhofstadt, former liberal leader, and Mario Monti, an ex-Italian prime minister (both former Berggruen affiliates) who have written to...
...In the absence of cross-border consolidation, the industry has little choice but to hunker down and hope that next year’s meeting on the slopes offers more reason for cheer....
...If so, banks would cheer the move....
...A varied CV that includes stints as a minister, European commissioner and chairman of the football league in his native Finland marks him out from others in the running to replace Mario Draghi as European...
...“We are at a time when you have to cheer for Italy,” Mr Di Maio, who is also leader of the Five Star Movement, told state television....
...“Each time I hear that someone like Goldman Sachs is moving hundreds of workers to Frankfurt, I cheer....
...Mario Draghi, ECB president, sounded cautious last month....
...Mr Hofer earns loud cheers at the Graz rally for demanding that “Islam can never become part of Austria”. Non-Muslims are in danger of becoming a minority, he warns....
...Mario Draghi, ECB president, told the European Parliament this year that for Greek bonds to be included in QE there would need to be medium-term measures in place to ensure that the debt is sustainable —...
...Europe will no longer be in this whacky warped state where loan growth of 3 per cent is seen as something to cheer. Presuming they ever figure it out, that is....
...Soaring Italian and Spanish bond yields had forced the ECB to begin tentative steps to buy up Madrid and Rome’s government bonds under its Securities & Markets programme in 2011, and led to Mario Draghi’...
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