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Musk said: “The people of Britain have had enough of a tyrannical police state.” It comes a day after the tech entrepreneur — tapped for a government efficiency job under Trump — reposted a graph showing Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s declining approval ratings, and added: “The voice of the people is a great antidote.” Musk’s fight with the British government took off over the summer, when he leaped on the killing of three schoolgirls in the seaside town of Southport to offer his thoughts on policing in the U.K., spread inaccurate claims about the government’s response, and accuse Starmer of…

“Today we will urgently declare a state of emergency in the area to ensure that the consequences of the incident are dealt with quickly — the area is cleaned up, hazardous materials are collected,” Benkunskas wrote in a Facebook post.  Mindaugas Pivorūnas, CEO of DHL Lithuania, told public service broadcaster LRT that the cause of the Boeing 737-476(SF)’s accident was not yet clear.  According to a spokesperson for Lithuania’s National Crisis Management Centre, the cause of the crash is being investigated as related to “technical problems.” Lithuanian police chief Arūnas Paulauskas also said the crash was “most likely due to…

He said there were numerous Premier League fans in the White House who would crowd around phone screens during official trips to catch snatches of games. There’s even an open channel for Arsenal fans on the business software tool Slack, where D.C. staffers, reporters and business reps chat about league tables.  In the D.C. bubble, soccer can be a good opener to grab the attention of networking targets. “Belated congrats on West Ham’s success!” read one cold pitch from a research firm to a reporter who lists their Premier League team on their social media profile.  It’s little surprise interest…

Little-known Georgescu took a shock lead in Romania’s presidential election on Sunday. Independent candidate Călin Georgescu took a surprise lead in the polls in Romania’s presidential election on Sunday with 22% of the vote, outperforming most local surveys and shocking the political establishment. Georgescu led the polls with 22% of the vote ahead of established parties and the country’s prime minister Marcel Ciolacu, who were widely expected to perform better. Who is Georgescu?The 62-year-old previously studied at the University of Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary Medicine in Bucharest and the city’s National Defence College.He worked as a university professor, in the…

Two cities in one, both in different countries, both with different languages. Will next year’s European City of Culture accolade bring them closer? Big project administration is challenging even in the best of circumstances. So when the Slovenian city of Nova Gorica announced its candidacy for European City of Culture 2025, the fact that half the city is actually in Italy and has a different name was a unique hurdle, but one that ended in success. And with just over a month until the red-letter year begins, cooperation is looking as good as the hugely eclectic programme.Both sides of the…

Arelion — a Sweden-based company, owned by an investment fund — operates communications cables in a “network [that] now stretches 75,000 kilometers across Europe, North America and Asia, and lets you connect directly to more than 2,750 wholesale customers in more than 128 countries.” A quintessential representative of the globalized economy, the company has offices all over Europe (including Moscow), Asia and the U.S., and its cables — which connect all manner of countries and continents — are indispensable to modern economies. Yet, on the morning of Sunday, Nov. 17, one of Arelion’s cables, which connects Sweden and Lithuania, was…

“Dad, can I choose where we go on our next holiday?”. This feels like a trap. In my head, I’m weighing up encouraging her enthusiasm for exploring the world. At the same time, I’m not sure I’m ready to sign over a holiday to the same girl who was recently furious that I wouldn’t let her wear her pyjama top to school as a coat. “Where would you like to go?”. I’m deliberately cagey, negotiating with a six-year-old is fraught with danger. “Belfast”. I did not see that coming. I was sold immediately. I’d never been to Belfast, and it…

Nachdem die SPD ihre Kanzlerkandidaten-Frage geklärt zu haben scheint, soll es nun richtig in den Wahlkampf gehen. Wie Scholz und die Sozialdemokraten dabei auch die Rente in den Mittelpunkt stellen – und was das für die CDU bedeutet, bespricht Gordon Repinski mit Chefkorrespondent Rasmus Buchsteiner. Er hat ausführlich mit dem NRW-Sozialminister Karl-Josef Laumann von der CDU dazu gesprochen. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview äußert sich Wiebke Esdar, die Co-Vorsitzende der NRW-Landesgruppe in der SPD-Fraktion, zur Frage, ob es ein Fehler war, die Diskussion um den möglicherweise besseren Kanzlerkandidaten Boris Pistorius zu befeuern. Europa- und Diplomatie-Experte Hans von der Burchard berichtet über die Treffen…

And, with its point-to-point travel options, business aviation enables travellers to fly directly to hundreds of airports that are not reached, either directly or at all, by commercial airline services. That provides quick, flexible travel solutions for companies, particularly those with multi-site operations or in underserved regions.  The sector’s impact extends far beyond its immediate transportation benefits, as outlined in  the “European Business Aviation Manifesto” we published with the European Business Aviation Association (EBAA). It highlights business aviation’s safety and sustainability-enhancing new technologies that ultimately scale up to commercial airliners.   Business aviation manufacturers spend €3 billion a year on technology…

“The perception is sometimes that this French focus [on internal market] … is really just a cloaked way of building its own French industrial champions,” said Tordoir — although he added that’s not “entirely fair,” and that industry-minded France could play a key role in boosting the EU’s competitiveness. Regardless, the frustration has been evident in recent policy disputes. Central and Eastern European countries slammed a batch of trucker reforms, which they billed the “Macron law,” on the grounds that they were deeply protectionist. France also came under fire for its push to establish an EU Capitals Markets Union — the…