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...But we should have panicked long ago!”...
...A staunch pro-European, Macron has long argued that the EU needs to become more of a geopolitical power to prevent the continent being marginalised economically by the US and China or threatened by a belligerent...
...“As long as their programme doesn’t change in ways we can’t accept, then they will remain our allies,” said Alexandre Loubet, a French RN lawmaker running the EU campaign....
...Bardella spoke to the FT after Macron salvaged the long-promised immigration bill by compromising with the right to make it harder on foreigners....
...Concerned about reputational risks, French banks have long shied away from lending to the party that Le Pen took over in 2011 from her father, who was known for inflammatory and, at times, racist rhetoric...
...The law applies to British and French vessels, which have long fished in the areas....
...draft law in its tracks just as its two-week long examination was to begin....
...Given its racist history and current policy ideas that would prioritise French nationals in employment and housing, RN has long been considered outside of the arc républicain — a concept that refers to the...
...“It was an intentional kiss of death,” says one RN lawmaker....
...RN leader Jordan Bardella vowed on Sunday to stand by farmers on a visit to the Gironde region near Bordeaux....
...Today’s letter instead makes the argument that Wood is “the lowliest valued company in the sector”, so long as you choose to ignore the lowlier ones....
...Malmendier Legal said that the economy ministry had informed it on Tuesday this week that it was considering expropriating shares in Rosneft Deutschland GmbH and RN Refining & Marketing GmbH....
...The Identity and Democracy bloc in Strasbourg, to which the AfD and RN belong, is otherwise set to increase its seat count from 58 to 98, catapulting it into third place behind the alliances of social democrats...
...It is hard to predict whether these initial reactions will translate into a permanent shift in public opinion, and much will depend on how long the uprising lasts....
...To prepare for the campaign, the RN has also been cleaning up old problems: this week it paid back the remaining €6mn on a loan owed to a Russian company, which political opponents have long criticised as...
...A person familiar with Amigo’s operations told Alphaville that there were concerns that technical issues would cause a merger to take too long....
...Readers can reacquaint themselves with the full sorry story, including long-running boardroom drama, here. Ambitions now are … not high....
...The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) is polling second in Germany, and Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National (RN) leads polls in France....
...This 60Mtpa, US$18bn sodium carbonate market – used in glass, detergents, food additives, etc. – has a long history of reporting modest, steady growth …and that’s about it....
...Posted without comment from RNS this morning....
...Some ways in which DCC is weird were highlighted in a long post in February, to which we’ll add one chart: Odd, right?...
...Nor is Le Pen’s long-held strategy of detoxifying the RN’s image and courting new voters by focusing on the cost of living crisis gripping Europe expected to change....
...., we can debate causation all night long), it is undeniably the uncertainty surrounding the impending refinancing of the £350m MREL instrument that has been the key trigger for this announcement....
...(The Atlantic) — Please like me (The Onion) — Living in a psychotic age (Insead working paper PDF) — Macroeconomics is still in its infancy (Noahpinion / Substack) — The real reason why it takes so long...
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