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...Government officials across countries in the EU’s waiting room — among them Ukraine, Moldova, Montenegro and Serbia — have accused Brussels of leading them on....
...As always, email me at scott.chipolina@ft.com Weekly highlights Do Kwon had a reprieve from extradition to the US from Montenegro this week when a court granted an appeal and set a retrial for the former...
...This summer, customers who bought packages rather than flights alone accounted for 73 per cent of Jet2’s passengers, up 5 percentage points on last year....
...“Under [Stoltenberg]’s leadership, Nato has evolved to meet new threats, continued to protect our people and has been steadfast in support of Ukraine,” he said....
...Fitch became the second credit rating agency after S&P to cut SBB to junk status over fears about how much short-term debt it needs to refinance in the coming year....
...So we really expect a very robust 2023 for the lodging sector,” said Hina Shoeb, a director at S&P Global Ratings....
...Biennial festival of contemporary visual art opens, marking the 25th anniversary of the UK’s largest contemporary visual arts festival Sunday French Open tennis men’s single final is played in Paris Montenegro...
...Yesterday, EU candidate country Montenegro also turfed out its longtime socialist leader Milo Đukanović, electing upstart centrist Jakov Milatović as president with a handsome margin....
...The South Korean was charged with eight criminal counts, including securities, commodities and wire fraud, hours after he was arrested in Montenegro. 4....
...Monday India, February consumer price index inflation rate data US, S&P Global purchasing managers’ index business outlook survey US, January labour market statistics Results: BuzzFeed Q4, Direct Line...
...“Mt Tara Piva near Bilfel Montenegro Proviance in Yugoslavia E and Asia” reads one. “Straits of Messina between Italy and Sicily between Tynhenian and Mediterranean Seas” goes another. [Sic]s abound....
...If someone tried to escape, remembers a fisherman on the lake that straddles the border between Albania and Montenegro, “something was triggered inside” the border guards, “some kind of inhuman cruelty”....
...The 14 unconditional selections would be Algeria, Australia, Canada, Georgia, Japan, Montenegro, Morocco, New Zealand, Rwanda, Serbia, South Korea, Thailand, Tunisia and Uruguay....
...A Russian BUK missile downed Flight MH17 and Russian officers were involvement in a failed coup in Montenegro....
...I feel he should be rewarded for his early determinedly organic stance, and this example of California’s (or Croatia’s or Montenegro’s, some would say) own grape is a refined, zesty red at a fair price —...
...“When they first proposed BRI, the government was very vague on what it included,” said Christopher Lee, chief corporate ratings officer for greater China at S&P Global Ratings....
...Montenegro voted to join Nato five months after the election....
...The businesses being sold are its mobile networks in Hungary, Bulgaria, Montenegro and Serbia, as well as a small technology business....
...Spain, Serbia and Slovenia are the European countries with a notable chance of an upgrade, while Montenegro and the UK are both on negative watch....
...Of the six former Yugoslav states covered by S&P Global Ratings, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia and Montenegro have lower ratings now than when S&P initiated coverage of them....
...Over the course of that dreadful decade for the US, the S&P was almost flat....
...The government has been plagued by legacy disputes over border demarcations with Montenegro and the creation of an autonomous Association of Serb-majority Municipalities in the north....
...The FTSE Eurofirst 300 is down 0.4 per cent after its Asia-Pacific peer slid 0.7 per cent and as futures show the S&P 500 adding one point to 1,989.5....
...S&P expects growth to be an anaemic 0.5 per cent in 2012, and notes that the country is suffering from the “continuous withdrawal of credit from [the] private sector”....
...Since 2010, the governments of Mongolia, Belarus, Zambia, Georgia, Bolivia, Tanzania, Paraguay, Angola, Nigeria, Albania, Montenegro, Jordan and most recently Honduras have all been able to tap global investors...
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