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Debt-based scheme would sidestep Hungary to quickly release money for Kyiv
...Today, we explain what European Council President Charles Michel’s run for a European parliament seat means for the rest of the Brussels machine, and I hear Belgium’s plans to get an ironclad Plan B for...
...that they can strike a deal on February 1 to allocate €50bn of fresh funding to Ukraine, either through concessions to Hungary that would allow the use of the bloc’s shared budget, or an off-budget “plan B”...
...“I think there are plans B, we even talked about it on the sidelines but frankly I hope it doesn’t come to that,” said Giorgia Meloni, Italy’s prime minister, as she left the summit....
...While 26 member states have a plan B to send money to Kyiv outside the EU budget, that would require national parliaments’ ratification, causing delays and uncertainty....
...He envisions his “plan B” will come into play if EU countries fail to circumvent Hungary’s blocking of financial aid to Ukraine. But Rehn is struggling to gain traction....
...Now read these Plan B: EU officials are looking at ways of circumventing Hungary’s veto on a support package for Ukraine ahead of crucial discussions later this week....
...Cool, calm, collected As European leaders grapple with how to reverse the continent’s sense of economic malaise, the head of the IMF has a piece of advice to start: stop being so critical, writes Henry Foy...
...But it would be reckless not to have a plan B.”...
...Meanwhile, McQueen and Marina B alumna Sarah Ysabel Narici, of New York’s Dyne, creates bespoke signet rings embedded with glyphs that can encapsulate each success....
...About 7mn barrels a day of crude oil and refined products flow through the Bab-el-Mandeb strait but the route has become vital for Russia to export to Asia with 4mn b/d heading south, according to Kpler...
...The additional deployment of Nato forces was a “prudent measure . . . to maintain security” in Kosovo, said Stuart B....
...Additional reporting by Henry Foy in Brussels...
...When Suzanne Simard was a child, she would eat humus — the sweet layer of topsoil that most of us leave underfoot. “I was always putting dirt in my mouth,” she says. “It just became part of who I was.”...
...cut by 240,000-270,000 b/d....
...Rather than wrapping up toys or games, Cardi B opened a black felt box in front of the toddler to reveal her gift....
...“Geopolitics are never kind to Russian business but this has taught us to stay competitive even in challenging environments, and to always have a Plan B.”...
...Two wings (which made up the original Astor home and their servants’ quarters) were turned into a 28-room B&B eight years ago....
...Israel has extended its third national lockdown after a surge in infections triggered by the B.1.1.7 mutation first identified in Britain....
...Umit Benan Founder, Umit Benan and B+ A fun, freewheeling energy crackles through Umit Benan’s ensembles. He also knows how to dress sexily, a rare feat for men....
...Last week it confirmed it was raising $65m in a Series B, which Axios reported will make it worth $650m....
...With the US exporting about 3m b/d of crude oil and 5m b/d of refined petroleum products this year, disruptions to Gulf infrastructure could affect global energy markets as well as US consumers....
...Under the proposal, the cuts would gradually ease, with 10m b/d removed through May and June, before cuts drop to 8m b/d to the end of the year and 6m b/d thereafter until April 2022....
...Coincidentally, “The ghosts of Smolensk” by James Shotter and Henry Foy mentions the murder of 20,000 “arrogant Poles” by the Soviet Army in 1940 at Katyn....
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