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...Most damning of all, French president Emmanuel Macron described the alliance as “brain-dead” in 2019....
...Its boss, former Danone chief executive Emmanuel Faber, fiercely defended this approach in a column for French newspaper Le Monde earlier this month....
...Some asylum seekers are staying in a squat on Brussels’ Rue de la Loi, just next to the headquarters of De Moor’s party, CD&V....
...Sim Gurewitz El Cerrito, CA, US Letter in response to this letter: Recalling what happened on Lüneburg Heath / From Elizabeth Balsom, London SW15, UK...
...“The Russians’ strategy is to show it is much more resilient to casualties than Ukraine,” said Oleksandr V Danylyuk, head of the Centre for Defence Reforms, a think-tank in Kyiv....
...The agreement was hailed by US president Joe Biden and Emmanuel Macron, president of France, amid claims it could revitalise the UK-EU relationship....
...Use against a Nato member state would trigger Article V, a “catastrophic” response — in the words of US national security adviser Jake Sullivan — and very probably war....
...Unsurprisingly, there have been calls for an early peace initiative, while French president Emmanuel Macron has said that it is important not to “humiliate” Russia over its invasion — a remark that drew...
...Vintage gloves were appliquéd to elbows and the back of jackets — they flashed a V-sign, either for victory or peace. Simons achieved both....
...She also notes a set of colourful men’s silk waistcoats from the 18th century pulled from the V&A collection....
...a French brasserie discreetly tucked into the ground floor of the Louvre’s Richelieu wing, is open every day, and it is here that Laurence des Cars, the 56-year-old art historian appointed by President Emmanuel...
...Those set to be in attendance include US president Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden, France’s president Emmanuel Macron and India’s president Droupadi Murmu....
...The head of V.Group, the world’s largest ship manager, has urged Nato to provide naval escorts for vessels passing through the Black Sea, off Ukraine’s coast, a region with global importance for food supplies...
...But they rarely have Sim cards in their phones, making the calls difficult to trace. Surrounded by trees and snow, many find it hard to describe their whereabouts....
...Chancellor Sebastian Kurz last week locked horns with EU leaders including Germany's Angela Merkel and France's Emmanuel Macron, criticising the bloc's sluggish vaccine rollout....
...Tech tools — VanMoof V e-bike Dutch e-bike brand VanMoof today unveiled its entry into the high-speed bike category....
...As always you can reach me at sid.v@ft.com. Thanks for reading....
...That would include Nato article V commitments on collective defence which Biden has called a “sacred obligation”. But how about regional crises on the edges of Europe, like Libya?...
...One mod for GTA V adds an LGBT pride parade to the fictional city of Los Santos, while a forum called The Black Simmer helps black Sims players find clothing, skin tone and hairstyle mods that enable them...
...Russia has approved the use of a single shot of its Sputnik V vaccine in a step that should expand its availability....
...The backers of Russia’s Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine intend to sue the Brazilian health regulator for defamation....
...This is “a little bit humiliating”, French president Emmanuel Macron told the Atlantic Council last week....
...Emmanuel Macron, president of France, condemned it “in the strongest terms. Political tensions must not be dealt with in this way....
...The effectiveness data of Moscow’s Sputnik V vaccine have at least been properly peer reviewed, unlike the Sinopharm jab....
...Another flashpoint has been how to classify vaccines not yet approved by EU regulators — such as Russia’s Sputnik V and China’s Sinopharm....
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