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...They added: “Presidential immunity for official capacity crimes would create an untenable dilemma for every member of the military chain of command ordered to execute an order, particularly if officers disagree...
...The US has just 10 per cent of EV production and 7 per cent of battery production capacity....
...He said he had reached agreement with Scholz and deputy chancellor and economy minister Robert Habeck on the need for a supplementary budget for 2023....
...Angela Rayner, deputy leader of the UK Labour party, writing in the FT, promised a new relationship with business that would move the country away from its low-productivity, low-security and low-wage doom...
...Fed veteran John Roberts, now at Evercore ISI, reckoned the real rate was potentially higher at 0.75 per cent....
...Masunungure said Chamisa’s well-founded wariness of the security apparatus had veered into “pathological fear of infiltration” and limited his party’s organisational capacity on the ground....
...Chart du jour: Packed European prisons are increasingly at capacity, according to a survey of 48 prison administrations in Council of Europe members....
...Days after being sworn in as minister on December 8 2021, Habeck’s officials gave him some light Christmas reading — a classified report on Germany’s energy security....
...This is problematic, according to Sir John Gieve, former deputy governor of the Bank of England....
...Sue Ferns, senior deputy general secretary at the trade union Prospect, agreed. “None of this should come as a surprise....
...Roberts warned that an expansion of the programme was “academic unless we can add meaningful capacity to the booster delivery programme”, which is currently running at just over 2m shots a week....
...Indeed EU officials have been moving ahead with some key pieces of legislation, including tech regulation....
...Robert Blackwill, a former US deputy national security adviser, says that western nations are trying to use economic and other instruments to achieve geopolitical objectives....
...Across the system, the realisation dawned that Beijing was never going to sign up as a “responsible stakeholder” — a term originally coined by Robert Zoellick when he was deputy secretary of state in 2005...
...US trade officials have dodged our questions a couple of times on whether they’re considering launching a Section 301 against Canada, but official readouts show that Tai “expressed concern” about the potential...
...Vaughan Gething, the Welsh health minister, contacted UK government officials in London....
...Even for companies acting in good faith, it’s not clear how much difference official intervention will make without huge incentives....
...Here we are, Robert. The road to Brexit. Are we nearly there? Bong. Bong. Robert. I can sense your frustration in the writing. OK. So here we are. It's the end of January, 2020....
...Robert's terribly good until his batteries go down. Energizer bunny. That's true. Ready? Go. Labour's leading indicators. Okay, Robert. It's very exciting, because......
...representative Robert Lighthizer....
...Our US finance editor Robert Armstrong will answer your questions on Instagram on Thursday at 8pm UK time....
...Commission vice-president Vera Jourova said in a tweet that the EU officials “remain ready to engage in constructive dialogue”....
...Madam Deputy Speaker, Before I turn to the economic forecasts, I hope the House will join me in thanking the Office for Budget Responsibility – and Robert Chote, in particular....
...“Good leaders are able to use crises to their advantage,” says one party official....
...They are beginning to show the capacity to react. It is a sign of great hope”....
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