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Professional WWE wrestler and 90s pop culture icon Hulk Hogan’s death last week was caused by a heart attack, according to a Florida medical examiner’s report.  Hogan, 71, whose real name was Terry Bollea, previously had leukemia and atrial fibrillation, an irregular heart rhythm, the report from the District Six Medical Examiner said. To honour the “Hulkster,” US Gov. Ron DeSantis has said that flags will be flown at half-staff at all official buildings today, which he declared “Hulk Hogan Day in Florida.” “He was a true Floridian through and through,” the Republican governor wrote in a memo Thursday. Hogan was pronounced dead…

A French Commission veteran with scars from the eurozone crisis, Brexit and the EU’s pandemic recovery, Riso has quietly become one of the bloc’s most influential — and polarizing — civil servants. At 49 she’s heading up the mother of all assignments: steering the EU’s next budget, the Multiannual Financial Framework (MFF), away from farmers’ subsidies and regional payouts toward more modern pan-European industrial projects. Now that the budget draft, with Riso’s fingerprints all over it, has been published, it will shuttle between capitals and the European Parliament as a final version is nailed down. It’s a gargantuan task. In…

Monti said the government may ultimately revert to traditional power plant designs, even though these have incurred huge cost overruns in Europe in recent years. It may also be the case, he added, that the energy source will need to be subsidized for a while. Still, Monti said, nuclear energy was financially competitive with solar and wind energy when considering the additional infrastructure, such as batteries, needed to make renewables sufficiently reliable to power the grid. Michele Governatori, an academic and a member of climate think tank Ecco, said he didn’t think there would ultimately be any return to nuclear,…

LONDON — Rachel Reeves needs Britain’s savers to feel richer. But she’s got a job on her hands convincing them to actually back U.K. companies. In the next year, an advertising blitz launched by the U.K.’s top finance minister will hit screens extolling the benefits of investing in stocks and shares. But an idea that originally looked set to give the ailing London Stock Exchange a much-needed boost could now end up sending more cash out of the country. “It’s first and foremost encouraging people to learn more about investing on their own, as opposed to this being a solution…

Von Paternoster zu Paternoster, vom Springer-Hochhaus ins Auswärtige Amt: Außenminister Johann Wadephul im Spaziergang-Interview mit Gordon Repinski. Kurz vor seiner Reise nach Israel hat er über rote Linien gegenüber der Regierung Netanjahu gesprochen, die Lage in Gaza und die Hoffnung auf eine Waffenruhe.Wadephul spricht außerdem darüber, wie die Zusammenarbeit mit US-Außenminister Marco Rubio funktioniert, das neue Interesse von Ländern wie Island oder Norwegen an einer EU-Mitgliedschaft und die Atomverhandlungen mit dem Iran.Und: Der Minister erklärt sein Verhältnis zu Kanzler Friedrich Merz, seine Abgrenzung zur feministischen Außenpolitik seiner Vorgängerin Annalena Baerbock – und sein Büro, in dem einst Erich Honecker saß.…

“The way through [local opposition] is to have a couple of test wells for a couple [of] years,” Tice said, “using different extraction techniques, under independent supervision and monitoring, so that one can show to people it can be done safely. I think that is the way through it.  “And, cards on the table — if you do a couple of test wells and, in a sense, for whatever reason, it doesn’t work out, then my hands are up, and I’ll say: ‘It was the right strategy to try, it doesn’t work, but at least we’ve tried and we know.’ …

Bardella told French newswire Agence France-Presse after the July raid that “no French bank wanted to lend money to the National Rally to finance its election campaigns,” and that the party should therefore not be blamed for “financing itself and taking out loans that are perfectly legal.” President Emmanuel Macron’s upstart political party faced the same problem before his shock victory in 2017, being forced to rely on fundraising to compensate for the absence of financial guarantees or a political track record that might have reassured creditors. But after he won the Elysée, banks were more comfortable with playing ball.…

“The U.S. has made these commitments,” Gill added. “Now, it’s up to the U.S. to implement them. The ball is in their court.” Brussels and Washington are finalizing a joint statement to formalize the political deal that Trump struck with Commission President Ursula von der Leyen at his Turnberry golf resort in Scotland. The EU expects that the White House will issue executive orders to solidify the agreements. “As of tomorrow, we will have the immediate tariff relief we have worked so hard to achieve,” Gill also said. The EU has not yet adjusted its retaliatory tariffs on €93 bln…

Des retours d’expérience, des confidences, des enquêtes ou des pamphlets : l’automne s’annonce à haute teneur politique sur les étals de votre libraire préféré. Les principaux concernés sont les premiers à avoir pris la plume. Un temps annoncé pour le printemps, le manuscrit de Gérald Darmanin, croisant ses années aux ministères de l’Intérieur et de la Justice, a pour titre provisoire Au cœur du réacteur (Editions de l’Observatoire) pour une plongée a priori programmée en octobre. A la fin du même mois, place à Juré, craché (Michel Lafon) d’Eric Dupond-Moretti sur son quadriennat Place Vendôme. Homme fort au nord de Paris, Xavier Bertrand, se racontera dans un livre au…

BRUXELLES — La Commission européenne a affirmé que ses règles en matière de numérique étaient sorties indemnes de l’accord commercial conclu dimanche avec les Etats-Unis. La réglementation de l’UE qui pèse sur les géants américains de la tech constitue un gros point de désaccord entre les deux parties. L’absence de précisions dans l’accord entre la présidente de la Commission européenne, Ursula von der Leyen, et le président des Etats-Unis, Donald Trump, a permis à chacun de mettre en avant sa propre interprétation. L’UE a affirmé que ses règles étaient préservées, mais les Etats-Unis pensent toujours qu’elles doivent être discutées. “L’attaque…