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...“In the long term, productivity growth in the US is projected to be higher than in Europe,” said Bart van Ark, managing director at the UK-based Productivity Institute....
...Steven van Weyenberg, the Dutch finance minister, echoes its message that governments have to “find new drivers of growth”....
...Tinne Van der Straeten, Belgium’s minister for energy, said divisions over gas price caps were mostly “technical issues that can be solved by people [at the commission]”....
...Bart van Ark, the head of the Productivity Institute, a UK research organisation, said the trend in productivity was “alarming”....
...“Especially since the early 2010s, we have seen the UK economy increasingly firing on only one or two cylinders, notably productivity in IT manufacturing and services,” says Bart van Ark, the head of the...
...And, in fact, quite a lot can be achieved without any treaty change being needed,” says van Middelaar....
...Website; Directions— Marie Veeder, London The Fleming, Hong Kong An independent hotel must have a distinct personality. The Fleming fits the bill....
...“It’s basic, simple flexibility,” Fleming-Saheed said of how his business operated. “That’s what a lot of people feel they don’t have time to do.”...
...Huw van Steenis, a former Bank of England adviser now at consultants Oliver Wyman, calls this the “Goldilocks CBDC” issue — wanting to avoid a flop but not to create something so popular it undermines the...
...Van Quickenborne said the current corruption investigation showed that Belgium, which hosts several EU institutions, as well as Nato, does not give “free passes” to alleged criminals....
...“The proof of the pudding is in the eating,” said Michiel van Hulten, a former MEP and now a director of Transparency International....
...Job moves Bob van Dijk is stepping down as chief executive of Naspers and as head of Prosus, the Amsterdam-listed investment vehicle it backs....
...If I have a van and it’s full of blonde, blue-eye kids coming from Ukraine, I have no problem....
...Michiel van Hulten, a former MEP and now director at Transparency International, reckons “the proof of the pudding is in the eating”. Let’s see if MEPs find the menu easy to digest....
...As the crisis threatens to tip Europe into recession, Ben van Beurden, Shell chief executive, warned that the region might need to ration access to energy for several years....
...“All these weapons land in southern Poland, get shipped to the border and then are just divided up into vehicles to cross: trucks, vans, sometimes private cars,” said one of the western officials....
...“It is important that he comes to show accountability,” said Kathleen van Brempt, a Belgian socialist....
...And in election news, Austria’s president Alexander Van der Bellen is on course to return to office for a second term, according to preliminary results last night....
...In summer, look out for a Hocking’s van — they’re famous in North Devon for their clotted-cream ice cream....
...Van Rij said a number of unnamed member states were opposing action since shell companies are “part of their business model”....
...The heroine, previously the domain of Renée Fleming, is now taken by Elza van den Heever, whose singing gleams and responds to the music’s interpretative demands, though it would be enhanced by greater vocal...
...(Read more here) Spy vans An unmarked van, tucked away in a sleepy alley, snooping on everybody within range may be a scene straight out of a spy movie....
...Johan van Overtveldt, who led negotiations for the parliament, said MEPs “had to fight for what we got and we are proud of what we have achieved”....
...“We want an agreement on the recovery fund, but not at any price,” said Mr van Overtveldt....
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