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...Brussels is working on a four-year financing plan for Ukraine worth tens of billions of euros as it seeks to put its support for the war-torn country on a more stable and predictable footing....
...It was home to Sam Bankman-Fried’s FTX exchange before the now-collapsed company moved to the Bahamas, and the stablecoin Tether and digital assets exchange Crypto.com were launched in the territory....
...“The parliamentary investigatory committee serves to control those in power,” said senior public prosecutor Roland Koch in the prosecution’s concluding statement....
...Mixing and sound design by Breen Turner, Sam Giovinco and Simon Panayi. Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com...
...The shareholder book reads like a Who’s Who of European capitalism: among them are France’s Peugeot family; Tetra Pak’s Rausings; logistics magnate Klaus Michael-Kühne; Roland Berger, founder of the eponymous...
...Additional reporting by Sam Jones...
...Benjamin Nabarro, UK economist at Citi, says he fears the government’s attention is “increasingly torn between meaningful reform on the one hand and electorally expedient personal tax cuts on the other”....
...Hedge funds have torn up their bets against the dollar after the US economy’s unexpected resilience sparked a rebound for the greenback in the first six weeks of the year....
...Sam Holcroft’s ingenious and playful drama features not merely a play within a play, but a playlet nested within that, not to mention several dramatised readings....
...From the front lines of war-torn Ukraine, to the devastation of natural disasters around the world, Andrés’s WCK has become a global Good Samaritan like no other....
...The four-year support mechanism for Kyiv would be comprised of €33bn in fresh loans and €17bn in grants aimed at unlocking investments in the war-torn country....
...And then finish it maybe with torn dill and some torn mint leaves. Oh even basil will work well. And then you just, you kind of arrange it on the plate, like, as if you would do a stir fry....
...“Magical decor” was how Roland Barthes described fishnet stockings....
...This is, after all, a war-torn country with the population of Spain and a geographical area that is akin to that of France. Enormous quantities of subsidies and support would be needed for decades....
...EU leaders including Macron and Scholz are torn between preserving business ties with China and the Biden administration’s demands for a tougher line....
...Brussels is preparing emergency curbs on Ukrainian grain imports to five member states close to the war-torn country, bowing to pressure from Poland and Hungary after they took unilateral action to pacify...
...The European Union finally agreed to a €50bn plan to support the war-torn country. The compromise came after Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán, agreed to back the deal....
...Ukraine’s allies are pushing the IMF to finalise plans for a multibillion-dollar lending programme as they seek to strengthen the war-torn country’s finances....
...“Neutrality has helped the Swiss for centuries on this war-torn continent. But it doesn’t work anymore,” says Thomas Borer, the former Swiss diplomat who wrote the country’s current neutrality policy....
...We had help this week from Joanna Kao, Sam Giovinco, David da Silva, Michael Lello, Peter Barber, Gavin Kallmann and Zach St Louis. Our executive producer is Topher Forhecz....
...Here’s what else I’m keeping tabs on today and over the weekend: Sam Bankman-Fried bail hearing: A New York judge will decide today whether the founder of cryptocurrency exchange FTX should go to jail while...
...president has urged capitals to push forward with talks on using $300bn worth of confiscated Russian central bank assets for the reconstruction of Ukraine, as the scale of the destruction mounts in the war-torn...
...What those countries are less vocal about, however, is just how far-reaching the ramifications would be of a Ukrainian entry into the union, writes Sam Fleming....
Ursula von der Leyen says Brussels has ‘the means’ to make Moscow pay for rebuilding war-torn country
...Additional reporting by Ben Hall in London and Sam Fleming in Brussels...
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