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welt.de | Elisa Braun |Mari Eccles
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3 days ago | 
politico.eu | Elisa Braun |Mari Eccles
BRUSSELS ― Ursula von der Leyen's legacy as European Commission president will face a huge challenge this week when the EU court rules on secret text messages she exchanged with the boss of a drug company that agreed a multibillion-euro vaccine deal with Brussels.
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1 week ago | 
politico.eu | Mari Eccles
U.S. chief trade adviser Peter Navarro accused the U.K. of being a “compliant servant of communist China” at risk of having its “blood sucked” by Beijing. Navarro, who has been advising U.S. President Donald Trump on tariffs, said in an interview with the Telegraph published Sunday that the British government should resist “string-laden gifts” from Beijing as it risks becoming a “dumping ground” for goods that China can no longer sell to the United States.
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1 week ago | 
flipboard.com | Mari Eccles
5 hours agoPutin says he hopes there will be no need to use nuclear weapons in UkraineRussian President Vladimir Putin said in comments broadcast on Sunday said that the need to use nuclear weapons in Ukraine had not arisen, and that …3 hours agoHow this teen fled Russian occupation to become an unassuming hero in UkraineKYIV, Ukraine — Ivan Sarancha was 7 when Ukrainian literature and history classes disappeared from his school.
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1 week ago | 
politico.eu | Mari Eccles
Russian President Vladimir Putin said Moscow has the "strength and means" to bring its unprovoked war on Ukraine to a "logical conclusion."His comments in an interview with Russian state media come as international efforts toward halting the hostilities in Ukraine have met with limited success, more than three years after Putin launched his full-scale invasion.
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1 week ago | 
politico.eu | Mari Eccles
France’s Prime Minister François Bayrou said he is considering proposing a national referendum over the country's budget. In an interview with the French weekly Journal du Dimanche published late Saturday, Bayrou said the importance of the issue means it merits consulting with voters directly. “The question is serious enough, with far-reaching consequences for the country’s future, that it should be put directly to the people,” he said.
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1 week ago | 
politico.eu | Mari Eccles
British police have arrested eight men as part of two separate counterterrorism investigations. Five men, four of whom are Iranian nationals, were arrested in London, Swindon and Greater Manchester on Saturday as part of an investigation into a plot to “target specific premises,” the Metropolitan Police said in a statement early Sunday. The site targeted by the plot, which was not named for “operational reasons,” has been made aware and is being supported by police, the Met added.
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1 month ago | 
politico.eu | Mari Eccles |Sarah Wheaton
“How can EPSO be such a failure every single time?” wrote another. This test was for candidates hoping to get a job as a translator working in one of eight different EU languages. 9,663 people took partOne candidate who received the email Thursday said she had spent an hour every day for several weeks revising for the tests, which include language knowledge, verbal and numerical reasoning.
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1 month ago | 
politico.eu | Mari Eccles |Hanne COKELAERE
BRUSSELS — After hitting just about every other industry he can think of (albeit with a brief pause), Donald Trump’s long-promised tariffs on drugs are around the corner. “We’re going to be announcing very shortly a major tariff on pharmaceuticals,” he said at a dinner of the National Republican Congressional Committee last week. “And when they hear that, they will leave China.
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1 month ago | 
politico.eu | Mari Eccles
The European Medicines Agency has rejected Lilly’s Alzheimer’s drug Kisunla for a license, saying its benefits don’t outweigh the risk of brain swelling or bleeding. The treatment for early Alzheimer’s disease, which is administered via a monthly infusion, has been approved in the United States, United Kingdom, Japan and China.
