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...There was even a flick at speculation whether von der Leyen will remain as president after her five-year mandate ends next summer....
...They are owned by a descendant of António Xavier Trindade (the late-19th/early-20th-century portrait artist sometimes called “the Rembrandt of the East”) and descendants of the Maharaja of Indore (the property...
...Iliad bids for Italian VodafoneFrench billionaire Xavier Niel’s telecoms group Iliad has offered more than €11bn to buy Vodafone’s Italian business, said people familiar with the matter....
...Von der Leyen has said the EU “stands with Moldova”, and has worked to make sure member states are ready to provide gas to Moldova — as Poland and Romania did this week....
...Xavier Bettel, Luxembourg’s prime minister and the only openly gay leader in the European Council, and Mark Rutte of the Netherlands led the charge against Orban on Thursday night....
...Luxembourg’s Xavier Bettel gave a moving account of his struggles to be accepted as gay that “brought many to tears”, Rutte told the Financial Times....
...Ursula von der Leyen, European Commission president, said American tourists who have been fully vaccinated against Covid-19 will be able to visit the EU, raising hopes for the summer tourism season....
...Xavier Bettel, Luxembourg’s premier, said he had asked for a system for mutual recognition of coronavirus testing across the EU....
...The president-elect announced on Monday that he would put Xavier Becerra, the California attorney-general and former member of Congress, in charge of the US health department....
...I also love a lot of photography and have bought pieces from Nick Knight, Nikolai von Bismarck and David Yarrow. davidyarrow.photography. instagram.com. nickknight.com....
...A carefully planned meeting between Mr Johnson and Mr Juncker in Luxembourg last year also descended into farce after Mr Johnson fled protesters and the country’s prime minister, Xavier Bettel, gave a press...
...Boris Johnson’s nightmare in Luxembourg was more than just a public embarrassment delivered at the hands of the Grand Duchy’s Xavier Bettel....
...Zagreb Philip Andrews McCann FitzGerald, Dublin Jorge Padilla Compass Lexecon, Madrid/London/Brussels Cani Fernández Cuatrecasas, Madrid/Brussels Aleksandra Boutin Positive Competition, Brussels Xavier...
...These include Flossbach von Storch and BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager....
...Max von Hurter, a real estate banker at Lazard, is joining Eastdil Secured as a managing director later this year, according to Estates Gazette and confirmed by DD....
...François-Xavier Roger, its French chief financial officer, was recruited last year from the emerging markets mobile operator Millicom, while its chief commercial officer is Frank Morich, a former executive...
...Age is clearly not a factor for selection: French-Canadian wunderkind Xavier Dolan, who only recently turned 25, presents his fifth feature, Mommy, while that 83-year-old enfant terrible Jean-Luc Godard...
..., or allowing Michael Xavier’s restrained Captain moments of unexpected humour....
...One film likely to cause controversy is this year’s The Conquest by Xavier Durringer, about Nicolas Sarkozy, the first film to show at Cannes about a serving French president....
...The Directors Fortnight was a meet-and-greet of the famous (Coppola, Jim Carrey) and the unheard-of, though more will surely be heard of the 20-year-old actor-filmmaker Xavier Dolan....
...Janeway Quercus £12.99, 272 pages FT bookshop price: £10.39 This magnificent German bestseller has as its unlikely protagonists two of the 19th-century’s most inquisitive minds – naturalist Alexander von...
...“Seneca” Zaragoza, the President’s trusted adviser; Defence Secretary Mondragon von Bertrab, who swears “loyalty to the President, as long as the President remains loyal to the institutions of the Republic...
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