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US rejection of sustainable finance offers Europe chance to step in - bank manager
Clean Energy Wire
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August 20, 2025
The United States' retreat from sustainable finance under president Donald Trump offers Europe an opportunity to strengthen its position in the sector, which is still thriving in many parts of the world, the managing director of one of Germany's...
Europe thinks Trump’s peace talks will fail. It wants them anyway — to call Putin’s bluff.
Politico Europe
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August 19, 2025
A second diplomat confirmed the allies were happy to support the American initiative to broker a truce, not because they necessarily thought it would work but “because it will be a clear test of Russian intentions.” A third said the security...
Youth advocacy and rural culture take centre stage for YFCU delegates at European Rally
Farming Life
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August 20, 2025
Delegates from the Young Farmers’ Clubs of Ulster (YFCU), supported by Danske Bank, recently returned from an immersive European Rally experience in Slovenia, where they spent 11 days exploring youth participation, rural advocacy, and...
Carbon announces two leadership hires and targets growth in European dental 3D printing market
TCT Magazine
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August 20, 2025
Carbon has announced two new leadership appointments in the US and Europe. The Silicon Valley 3D printing company has welcomed back former Head of Market Development Dana McCallum as Head of Global Enterprise Sales, and appointed dental industry...
Regenerative agriculture: A new chapter in EU green farming policy
Open Access Government
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August 20, 2025
The European Economic and Social Committee (EESC) recently became the first official EU body to explicitly recognise regenerative agriculture as a core strategy for transforming Europe’s food and farming systems. With our opinion adopted in June...
Nasdaq tumbles, European shares rise as investors digest Ukraine peace efforts
Yahoo Finance
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August 19, 2025
By Alun John and Noel Randewich LONDON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) -Wall Street stocks fell, European equities rose and oil edged down on Tuesday as traders assessed the previous day's White House talks on the war in Ukraine, and looked ahead to a key...
Wizz Air Director: We now consider Tuzla to be a Key Point in Central and Eastern Europe
Sarajevo Times
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August 20, 2025
After a two-year hiatus, Wizz Air is reopening its base in Tuzla, further strengthening its presence in Bosnia and Herzegovina and Eastern Europe. On this occasion, Wizz Air Hungary CEO Roland Tišner spoke to Fena news agency about the strategic...
From waste to value: Europe’s untapped potential in textile recycling
Apparel Resources
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August 20, 2025
Image Courtesy: VTT Technical Research Centre A Finnish research project has found that textile recycling represents a major opportunity for Europe. While recycling technology is developing quickly, a lack of regulation and the complex composition...
Deutsche Bank pinched Barclays' head of European rates sales
eFinancialCareers
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August 20, 2025
As we have reported here, Barclays has developed a habit of losing its top traders in London. Now it seems to be losing top salespeople too. Get Morning Coffee ☕ in your inbox. Sign up here. Sources at the bank say that Noel Cochrane, a managing...
Severe droughts hit Middle East, Europe
Semafor
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Severe droughts hit countries extending from the Middle East through Europe. Iraq has seen water levels along its two main rivers, the Tigris and the Euphrates, fall by more than a quarter and is grappling with its driest year since 1933, while...
Alfresco dining in 1920s Europe
The Guardian
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August 20, 2025
All readers of Jane Austen will remember Mr Woodhouse’s objection to his daughter’s portrait of Harriet Smith. “It is very pretty,” he said to Emma, “just as all your drawings are, my dear. The only thing I do not thoroughly like is that she seems...
EU’s Kallas says new Russia sanctions package to be ready in September
The Straits Times
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August 19, 2025
BRUSSELS - European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas said on Aug 20 the EU would continue targeting Russia’s war economy and that the next sanctions package against Moscow should be ready by September. She was speaking after a virtual...
Only Trump, not the EU, can hurt Russia’s oil industry
Unherd
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August 20, 2025
Despite Monday’s amicable White House meeting between Donald Trump, Volodymyr Zelensky, and several European leaders, a new gap in the West’s Russia strategy is set to open up. The European Union is poised to approve its 19th sanctions package...
After Putin call, Trump rang Orban over Ukraine EU membership
Jewish World Review
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SIGN UP FOR THE DAILY JWR UPDATE. IT'S FREE. (AND NO SPAM!) Just click here. US President Donald Trump called Viktor Orban on Monday following talks with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy and European leaders to discuss why the Hungarian...
Trump’s “Big, Beautiful” Act Could Hit Gambia’s Economy Where It Hurts Most: Remittances
Foroyaa Newspaper
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August 20, 2025
By Yankuba Jallow with New Narratives U.S. law imposes new tax on diaspora money transfers Remittances vital to Gambia’s foreign currency reserves Families brace for financial shock amid U.S. crackdown A controversial new law signed by President...
CSL will slash headcount and hive off vaccine business
pharmaphorum
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August 20, 2025
Australia's CSL is wielding the axe, cutting its workforce by 15% – around 3,000 positions – while announcing plans to spin its vaccines unit into a standalone company. The decision to demerge the CSL Seqirus business into a separate ASX-listed...
Trump is warning Europe that he is still Putin’s man
The i paper
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August 20, 2025
WASHNGTON DC – The vapour trails left by the jets carrying European leaders back to their respective capitals may still have been visible in the skies above the Atlantic when US President Donald Trump began taking steps to destabilise further his...
German minister says China's 'assertiveness' threatens European interests
Yahoo News
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China's assertiveness in the disputed South China Sea and tensions in the Taiwan Strait threaten international security and European interests, Germany's foreign minister said on Wednesday. "What happens here in the Indo-Pacific has a direct...
AP Business SummaryBrief at 6:45 a.m. EDT
Voice of Alexandria - Minnesota
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Target's COO will lead the struggling retailer when CEO Brian Cornell steps down in February NEW YORK (AP) — Target CEO Brian Cornell plans to step down Feb. 1. He helped reenergize the company but has struggled to turn around weak sales in a more...
TIRASPOL LEADER: EUROPEAN UNION SHOULD BE PRESENT IN DIALOGUE BETWEEN TRANSNISTRIA AND MOLDOVA
Infotag
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August 20, 2025
Tiraspol leader Vadim Krasnoselsky said that "the European Union should be present in the dialogue between Transnistria and Moldova." He said this yesterday at a meeting in Tiraspol with the EU Ambassador to Chisinau, Janis Mazeiks, who is...