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UK local government finance
Jeremy Hunt pulls £200mn from councils after clawing back house sale funds
...Hunt’s Budget maintained a tight grip on public spending to help finance a £10bn a year cut in national insurance contributions....
March 7, 2024
News in-depthEU-China relations
Europe turns on China’s Nuctech after decade of awarding security contracts
...Airports Council International Europe said Nuctech scanners were “legitimately procured in the course of official tenders on the basis of their certification” by EU and UK authorities....
April 25, 2024
FT Live
Future of Business Education: Spotlight on Executive MBA
Enhancing your leadership skills
Wednesday, 16 OctoberDigital Conference
News in-depthTechnology regulation
Blind internet users struggle with error-prone AI aids
...Mark Riccobono, president of the National Federation of the Blind in the US, said that, though lawsuits are needed to protect disability rights, his association tries to work with companies to improve their...
April 7, 2024
UK local government finance
English councils ‘forced to the pawnshop’ in fire sale of assets
...Councils have lost 24 per cent of their core spending power in that time, according to the Local Government Association, the representative body covering county and district councils, metropolitan and unitary...
February 28, 2024
News in-depthSocial affairs
‘The costs are rising inexorably’: children’s services hit by council funding crisis
...The council spends 84 per cent of its core budget on social care, the third highest proportion nationally....
December 1, 2023
FT SeriesThe world’s best house museums
House museums #57: Pearl S Buck
...Buck advocated for humanitarian causes and civil rights, writing for the NAACP’s [National Association for the Advancement of Colored People] The Crisis magazine....
March 2, 2024
FT Live
Future of Asset Management Europe
New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence
Tuesday, 12 NovemberLondon, UK
News in-depthForeign aid
Development funds dash for donor cash at World Bank and IMF meetings
...“There is a very compelling case for using [SDR bonds] to fill some of the funding holes in IDA in particular,” said Brad Setser, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations....
April 15, 2024
UK social housing
Spending on UK social housing will ‘save taxpayers money’ in long term, study finds
...with a national housing shortage....
February 27, 2024
Inside Politics
Rishi Sunak doesn’t help his chances amid a dire public realm
...SEND school transport | Council spending on school transport for children with special educational needs and disabilities has almost doubled in the past five years, BBC research has found....
March 27, 2024
News in-depthSocial affairs
Support for change in law on assisted dying grows across the UK
...Campaigners in favour of changing the law in England believe a shift by the British Medical Association and the Royal College of Physicians to a neutral position on the issue after opposing assisted dying...
April 6, 2024
The Big Read
Inside the UK’s failing plans to ‘level up’ left-behind towns
...Durham was one of 55 councils to spend money on bids for the second round of the Levelling Up Fund before discovering that their previous success made them ineligible to apply....
April 26, 2024
UK local elections
UK ‘pothole crisis’ threatens Conservative party ahead of local elections
...The Local Government Association, the representative body for councils in England and Wales, pointed to OECD figures showing that spending on local road maintenance in the UK halved between 2006 and 2019...
April 16, 2024
UK politics
Nearly one in five English councils at risk of bankruptcy, says LGA
...Nearly one in five council leaders in England have said they are likely to declare de facto bankruptcy this year or next as a result of a lack of government funding, according to the Local Government Association...
December 6, 2023
Europe Express
How EU leaders fudged a compromise on integration of capital markets Premium content
...Nato secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg hosts virtual meeting of Nato-Ukraine council....
April 19, 2024
Leyla Boulton
Why is making UK homes more efficient so difficult?
...“We can’t advocate for contractors . . . though we know it’s a blocker for residents,” Lambeth council’s head of sustainability Cassidy Travis told a conference session on local leadership....
April 11, 2024
FT Live
Business of Football Summit
The global gathering of leaders in football and finance
Wednesday, 26 February 2025In-Person & Digital | London
Europe Express
Why the EU cares about Poland’s constitutional confrontation Premium content
...An association council between Egypt and the EU is to take place on January 23, according to officials....
January 11, 2024
Climate change
Exxon leads industry fight against UN plans to limit plastic
...The statement from McKee, who is also the chair of the International Council of Chemical Associations, which represents the largest petrochemical companies, drew an angry response from environmental campaigners...
April 22, 2024
Hong Kong politics
Hong Kong passes tough new security law
...All 89 members of the territory’s de facto parliament, the Legislative Council, voted on Tuesday in favour of the bill, which imposes maximum penalties of life imprisonment for crimes such as treason....
March 19, 2024
Fifa
Fifa and promoter reach deal in legal fight banning big European matches in US
...However, the football governing body’s Council decided that “official league matches must be played within the territory of the respective member association”....
April 8, 2024
Poland
Poland puts forward justice reform needed to unfreeze EU funds
...Adam Bodnar told a news conference on Friday that overhauling the National Council of the Judiciary (KRS) was essential to restore the impartiality of courts, one of the main pledges made by the new coalition...
January 12, 2024
Taiwan
Taiwan’s trade tsar seeks new deals and braces for possible Trump win
...He previously served as deputy chief of Taiwan’s National Security Council from 2009 to 2014, and as economic affairs minister from 2014 to 2016....
April 24, 2024
Rosalynn Carter
Former US first lady Rosalynn Carter dies aged 96
...As first lady, she was a more visible figure and a more politically active presence in the White House than many of her predecessors, sitting in on cabinet meetings, attending National Security Council briefings...
November 20, 2023
Martin Wolf
How Labour wants to change the British economy
...There would also be a host of new institutions — a new British Infrastructure Council, a revived Industrial Strategy Council, a National Wealth Fund and Great British Energy....
April 1, 2024
UK housebuilding
Gove insists he has not ‘abandoned’ local housing targets
...Kate Henderson, chief executive of the National Housing Federation, which represents associations that provide affordable housing, said: “These changes, which effectively relax local housing targets, will...
December 19, 2023
UK retail industry
Theft and violence in UK’s small shops soars to record levels
...Chief Superintendent Alex Goss, the National Police Chiefs’ Council lead for retail crime, said: “Retail crime can have a significant impact on victims which is why we are committed to doing all we can to...
March 4, 2024

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