Month: February 2020

POLITICO POLITICO Brussels Playbook Plus: THE CASE FOR BELGIUM — BUDGET BACKLOG — A LOT OF ALAINS By Ryan Heath, Tara Palmeri and Harry Cooper 10/1/16, 6:45 AM CET Updated 10/1/16, 6:46 AM CET IS BELGIUM A FAILED STATE? A widely read POLITICO opinion article published after the November 2015 Paris terror attacks — which […]

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Kristalina Georgieva | Illustration by Aiste Stancikaite for POLITICO Kristalina Georgieva to quit Commission for World Bank job A source said the Bulgarian was frustrated with the ‘poisonous’ influence of Jean-Claude Juncker’s chief of staff. By Ryan Heath 10/28/16, 4:30 PM CET Updated 10/30/16, 7:13 AM CET Kristalina Georgieva resigned Friday as vice president of the […]

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Valdis Dombrovskis | Frederick Florin/AFP via Getty Images New EU finance chief commits to finishing Jonathan Hill’s work Valdis Dombrovskis says financial services will be “most affected” by Brexit. By Fiona Maxwell 7/6/16, 2:16 PM CET Updated 8/17/17, 10:57 PM CET Filling the boots of a well-respected commissioner halfway through his post is a tough […]

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Left-wing actress Alyssa Milano attacked “joke as a person” President Donald Trump in a five-minute-long, rambling video rant about impeachment. In a video Milano says over and over that Trump “committed impeachable offenses.” The left-wing activist scorns President Trump for violating the framer’s will, and “international order,” while concluding that we have to “impeach the […]

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