Bankers “are profiting hugely” from their role as lenders and advisers to fossil fuel companies, Gore said in an interview ahead of Climate Week, the annual gathering in New York of business and government leaders that occurs in conjunction with the UN General Assembly. /jlne.ws/3r8aYKE ...
4 at the start of a European economic summit that brought British Prime Minister Gordon Brown, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to Paris. In the previous week, govern- ments in Belgium, Britain, France, Germany, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Iceland ...
Nigel Lawson, the tax-slashing chancellor under Margaret Thatcher and one of the titans of British politics in the 1980s, has died at the age of 91. Lord Lawson headed up the Treasury under Mrs Thatcher from 1983 to 1989, playing a leading role in her transformative government which rolled...
Germany's coalition government is in deep trouble, as we reported a couple of weeks ago. Polls, for what they're worth, show that chancellor Olaf Scholz’s ‘traffic light’ coalition of the Social Democrats, Greens and Free Democrats – is the least-popular gov...
Still, German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned on Tuesday that“we don’t want these negotiations to fail, but we can’t rule it out completely.” end UK/RUSSIA I can assure you that Putin will not be too happy with these charges against two Russian nationals; Petrov and Boshirov (courte...