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...Up until the 1995 Merchant Shipping Act, receivers had the power to bear arms with which to “kill, maim or hurt” anybody obstructing their official capacities....
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...Lord Peter Mandelson, the former EU trade commissioner and Labour cabinet minister, outlined in a keynote speech the party’s approach to Europe if it was to win power....
...In my view, one of the big things pushing down R-star has changed fundamentally, and that’s productivity....
...In a letter addressed to Musk on Tuesday, EU commissioner Thierry Breton wrote that the European Commission had “indications” that the platform was “being used to disseminate illegal content and disinformation...
...She says that the framework, if adopted, would undermine parliamentary authority, concentrate power in the hands of a single individual and undermine delicate checks and balances....
...“People in the government know that if nothing changes, Lula will be elected in October,” says Thomas Traumann, a political analyst and former official in a PT-led government....
...In the EU, authorisation comes into force shortly after ministerial approval by being published on an official register....
...The government needs to borrow the money that individuals and corporates are saving and recirculate it in the economy, Koo says, otherwise GDP will contract....
...Letta is set to present his report in March during the Belgian presidency of the Council of the EU that begins in January....
...A government official said that “like all tax policy, R&D is kept under constant review . . . it is standard with policy engagement for officials to meet and consult with a variety of stakeholders from across...
...Instead, his door was sealed and he and his family isolated at home. Elsewhere there is flexibility in the definition of a close contact....
...Despite repeated official French invocations of the importance of its industrial sector, manufacturing is only 9 per cent of France’s GDP, the same as in the UK and lower than the US at 11 per cent....
...And one of the significant moments in his downfall was those MPs in particular coming out and going, no, no, you’ve got to go....
...Lord Theodore Agnew, who resigned from his post as anti-fraud minister in January in protest at the scheme’s losses, has spearheaded efforts to encourage banks, officials and the British Business Bank to...
...Thomas Hale, a public policy professor at the University of Oxford and co-chair of Race to Zero’s expert peer review group, says the UN body did not have the capacity to be a “global police force” that helps...
...His plans will abolish the Work Capability Assessment in Great Britain and separate benefit entitlement from an individual’s ability to work....
...Several diplomats and officials said Breton in particular had grown in influence, buzzing with ideas for “strategic autonomy”....
...And after having secured a one-on-one meeting with Elon Musk, EU internal market commissioner Thierry Breton claims that the richest man in the world was receptive to his regulatory explanations....
...Deripaska’s spokesperson said prior to stepping down from his management position at EN+, he met many senior officials from the Kremlin and relevant Russian government departments....
...The case centres on José Manuel Villarejo, a former police commissioner who combined his official post with corporate security and intelligence work, including efforts to foil takeover bids for some of Spain...
...“There are some individual wind farms on the drawing board that have more than 4.3GW capacity,” said one official. What are the legal difficulties of extending the plants’ lifespans?...
...keep his country’s recovery on track and social unrest at bay....
...“We grow based on the goodwill of tech giants,” Yen says from his head office in Geneva. In fact, he says, the same goes for his company’s very existence....
...US prosecutors claim he received more than $35mn in funds misappropriated from the 1MDB fund for his role in bribing officials and moving stolen money to offshore bank accounts....
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