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“Art always gets a sort of double sense,” said Sholette. “One hand, yes, it’s a business, but it’s almost that’s the necessary side of propping up and maintaining and collecting and preserving culture, which somehow transcends capitalism, somehow transcending mere business.” He said Art Basel’s tie-up with Qatar underscored just how much the supposed timeless quality of art had become entangled in modern finance and big business: “We actually really do see its connection to big business corporations, to the ultra wealthy, to oligarchs, Russian and otherwise. And so I think that contradiction has just kind of become very, very extreme…

“In your opinion, should Donald Tusk resign and cease to serve as Prime Minister of the government?” asked a United Surveys poll for Polish news site Wirtualna Polska. 48.6% of respondents answered that Tusk should resign, while 43.8% said that he should remain in office. 7.6% were undecided or refused to take a position. The respondents were also strongly divided by party lines. Supporters of the ruling coalition, which includes Civic Platform, the Left, the Polish People’s Party and Poland 2050, support Tusk. 85% of them are against the Prime Minister’s resignation. However, 80% of voters supporting conservative opposition parties,…

He held the post until September of last year, when his dismissal was announced ahead of a major reshuffle of Zelenskyy’s Cabinet. He relocated to the Bavarian town of Starnberg shortly thereafter. According to Ukrainska Pravda, reports of the NABU-requested search of Shurma’s home angered the Ukrainian president, who objected to the “international scale” its investigations were taking. The publication claimed the development was a major factor in Zelenskyy’s decision to sign a controversial law placing the anti-corruption agency under executive control earlier this month. The legislation, which gave the country’s presidentially-appointed prosecutor general direct authority over the NABU and…

But in July it was revealed that although her profile in the Spanish parliament’s website said she held a “dual degree in Law and Public Administration,” she held no degree whatsoever. Journalists also discovered that her profile at Guatemala’s Francisco Marroquín University, where N´úñez taught a Political Science course, falsely claimed that she also held a degree in English Philology. News of the politician’s fake CV credentials came at an awkward moment for the PP. Since last May, when Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez was forced to publicly apologize for the corruption within his Socialist Party, the leading center-right political…

According to a statement issued by Serbian prosecutors, Momirović and other suspects arrested on Friday are believed to have artificially inflated invoices issued by the two Chinese companies that carried out the station’s revamp. Prosecutors allege the corrupt practices resulted in the loss of $115.6 million in public funds, and that the Chinese consortium overseeing the renovation obtained at least $18.8 million in benefits by inflating its invoices. The arrests follow last December’s indictment of 13 people, among them former Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Minister Goran Vesić, for “serious offenses against public safety” and “irregular and improper construction works.” Serbia’s…

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At almost 7pm in Bilbao, the heat is still so strong that a group of tourists have huddled in the shadow cast by Maman’s sac of eggs. The nine-metre-tall spider sculpture stands in an exposed stretch of ground outside the Guggenheim Museum. Elsewhere, the city offers plenty of shelter for its residents and visitors during this late June heatwave. Plane trees make a cool tunnel of the Gran Vía, where screens announce the time and temperature; 25°C at 9pm stops me in my tracks.  There are 131 ‘climate shelters’ – air-conditioned buildings and green spaces where people can keep cool…

While Helsinki is among the smallest EU capitals, with a little under 690,000 residents, some 1.5 million people live in and commute throughout the metropolitan area. Roni Utriainen, a traffic engineer with the city’s Urban Environment Division, told the Finnish press that the achievement was attributable to “a lot of factors … but speed limits are one of the most important.” Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed of impact from 40 to 30 kilometers per hour, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas…

Each party acted in its own interest and were not expected to show loyalty to the customer, the ruling said. But in one of the three cases, judges said the consumer should be compensated as he was treated unfairly as per the Consumer Credit Act. In that case, the consumer, Marcus Gervase Johnson, had his claim upheld for specific circumstances including the large size of the commission paid by the bank to the car dealer, and that the documents he was provided with upon sale of the vehicle were designed to create a false impression of terms offered by lenders.…

The Ukrainian capital Kyiv observed an official day of mourning on Friday, a day after a Russian drone and missile attack on the city killed 31 people, including five children, and injured more than 150, officials said. The youngest victim in Thursday’s strikes was two years old and 16 of the injured were children, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said. It was the highest number of children killed and injured in a single attack on Kyiv since aerial attacks on the city began in October 2022, according to official casualty figures reported by the AP news agency. It was also the deadliest attack…