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...Illinois at Chicago (UIC), Chicago, IL, US...
...The new parliament will vote on the Federal Council seats in mid-December....
...Economists expect the central bank to keep the overnight rate at the current 5 per cent for the fourth consecutive meeting....
...A row over a local roundabout in the north-east of England has thrown a spotlight on the way the Tory party’s most high-profile regional mayor conducts his business....
...Council....
...In the milder case of the mid-1990s, the central bank cut rates after an uptick in unemployment, and eventually had to raise them again when the economy strengthened....
...The UK government will miss its manifesto target of building an additional 300,000 homes a year by the mid 2020s and is imposing unrealistic goals on English cities, business groups and councils have warned...
...Almost every expression of policy support from the PBoC and central government’s state council over recent weeks has been qualified by caveats that they would not resort to “flood-like stimulus” and remained...
...Other aspects of public life make Slovakia stand out from the rest of central Europe....
...The reason why the EU enlarged was because lots of countries in central and eastern Europe wanted to join the European Union....
...on the council of ministers....
...the freezing of Russian central bank reserves, which dramatically underlined once again the power of the US dollar....
...More than 20,000 homes and businesses in the states of Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Wisconsin and Illinois were without power on Friday, according to the website Poweroutage.us....
...A blithe lack of concern with popularity is a central part of the true muckraker’s calling. It’s just as well for Cruickshank....
...The bill for the north-western leg of the rail scheme that starts in London, intended to run from Crewe to Manchester by the mid-2030s, begins its second reading in Westminster on Monday....
...conference, one of the insurance industry’s biggest gatherings, begins in Monte Carlo Taiwan, Mid-Autumn (or Moon) Festival UK, last night of the BBC Henry Wood Promenade Concerts aka The Proms US, women...
...Nick Bosanquet: End era of centralisation/politicisation. Move to devolution and local/regional initiatives....
...Ursula was born in Brussels in 1958, the third daughter of Ernst Albrecht, who was to become one of Germany’s regional governors....
...Yet Ankara has so far not joined the sanctions drive against Moscow; and Turkey abstained at the Council of Europe’s vote to suspend Russia....
...Some Ukrainian soldiers called this “the road of life”, others referred to it as “the road of death”. “It depends on whether you make it out alive,” one soldier explained. It was mid-February 2015....
...MFG won 6 per cent of the ballot in regional elections in September — drawing a large proportion of its support from former FPÖ voters. A new populist wave?...
...That all promises little respite for regional and local officials who must bear the brunt of Xi’s policy onslaught....
...Facebook, for example, told the SEC that the polar vortex of 2021, which knocked out electricity in a swath of the central US, increased its electricity costs....
...In the interim, adds James Lewis, Leeds city council leader, the situation could be improved by speeding up government plans to bring regional city bus networks back under local government, allowing local...
...A position paper from Madrid ahead of today’s meeting calls on the commission to help set up a central EU platform for natural gas to help “facilitate the build-up of strategic gas reserves”....
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