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...Additional reporting Giuliana Ricozzi in Rome Letter in response to this article: Italy PM’s ‘strongman’ tag / From Michael Ledzion, Cambridge, UK...
...“For me, this election is about the hope for change,” said Valéria Conte Deldem, a 48-year-old from São Paulo who voted for Lula....
...In Germany, for instance, Michael Kretschmer, the Christian Democratic premier of the state of Saxony, called this week for a diplomatic end to the war....
...Plus, the FT’s US investment editor, Michael MacKenzie, explains why the chief executive of Brookfield Asset management thinks the markets have undervalued real estate....
...Italy’s prime minister Giuseppe Conte has accused AstraZeneca of a “serious contractual violation” and threatened legal action....
...After the British forbade the supply of graphite to the French, Nicholas-Jacques Conté came to the rescue. Conté was a French army officer, balloonist, adventurer — and pencil engineer....
...Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte is considering letting shops reopen in low-infection areas for 10 days before Christmas while limiting the size of family gatherings....
...Reporting by Guy Chazan in Berlin, Michael Peel and Sam Fleming in Brussels, Ian Mount in Madrid and Miles Johnson in Rome...
...Additional reporting by Martin Arnold in Frankfurt and Michael Peel in Brussels Letter in response to this article: Austria should learn lessons of last ski season / From Timothy Spence, Vienna, Austria...
...Meanwhile, a three-hour meeting in London on Thursday between Michael Gove, Cabinet Office minister, and Maros Sefcovic, EU vice-president, which continued over steak and potatoes ordered from Deliveroo,...
...Additional reporting by Michael Peel in Brussels...
...Giuseppe Conte, the Italian prime minister, argued that Brussels was following ideas that Rome has been putting forward since the start of the crisis....
...“I was surprised by this explosion of cases,” prime minister Giuseppe Conte told state broadcaster RAI, warning that the number was likely to rise....
...shipment of protective equipment, disinfecting machines, ventilators and disease specialists was personally agreed by President Vladimir Putin after a plea for help from Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte...
...michael.peel@ft.com; @mikepeeljourno Your coronavirus reads The New York Times stats team has uncovered up to 25,000 unreported coronavirus deaths in 11 countries — most of them in Europe Máximo Miccinilli...
...The tougher rules will be introduced regionally, Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte told parliament....
...German chancellor Angela Merkel, Italy’s prime minister Giuseppe Conte and Charles Michel, European Council president, have sought to woo parties to the conflict to the UN-organised peace negotiations in...
...Libyan prime minister Fayez al-Sarraj was in Brussels on Wednesday to meet top EU officials, while he and Mr Haftar held separate meetings with Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte in an effort to broker...
...Delivering his verdict on Friday, High Court judge Sir Michael Burton found in favour of Vale. “I’m satisfied there was no apparent bias or procedural irregularity,” he said....
...Ms Lagarde’s warning came just hours before Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte announced on Wednesday that he was ramping up the size of a spending package to tackle his nation’s coronavirus outbreak...
...France, Germany, Romania, Spain and Luxembourg had all offered to take in migrants from the Open Arms, Mr Conte said....
...Giuseppe Conte, Italy’s prime minister, told reporters that failure to open EU enlargement to both countries would “be remembered as a historic error”....
...(El País) Joint pitch Giuseppe Conte, Italy’s prime minister, has renewed his pitch for jointly issued bonds in an interview with Süddeutsche Zeitung ahead of an EU leaders call on Thursday....
...Most European leaders pushed back against the idea — although Italy’s outgoing premier Giuseppe Conte expressed some sympathy for it, diplomats said....
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