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“The new provisions ensure that calls and SMS within the EU will be at the same price as the domestic calls from 2029.”
– European Parliament’s rapporteur Alin Mituța wrote on X at the end of the inter-institutional negotiation.
Story of the week: Representatives of the European Council, Commission, and Parliament agreed on a compromise text of
Until last month, nobody outside of YouTube had a solid estimate for just how many videos are currently on the site. Eight hundred million? One billion? It turns out that the figure is more like 14 billion—more than one and a half videos for every person on the planet—and that’s counting strictly those that are publicly visible.
I have that number not because YouTube maintains a public counter and not because the company issued a press release announcing it. I’m
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BERLIN — Germans gave the world schadenfreude for a reason. And southern Europe couldn’t be more pleased.
For countries that spent years on the receiving end of Europe’s German-inspired fiscal Inquisition, there’s no sweeter sight than to see Germany splayed on the high altar of Teutonic parsimony.
The irony is that Germany put itself there on purpose and has no clue how it will find redemption.
Last week’s jaw-dropping
This article is part of the Road to COP special report, presented by SQM.
WASHINGTON — Eight years after Paris, the oil business is bigger than ever.
Profits are soaring. Production is climbing — and marking a record year in the United States. The industry is even poised to gain from the crusade to rein in climate pollution, including the billions of dollars in incentives that U.S. President Joe Biden is offering for wind farms, battery minerals and carbon-carrying pipelines.
This article is part of the Road to COP special report, presented by SQM.
Last week’s surprise deal between China and the United States may provide a boost to the climate talks in Dubai — but the two powers remain at odds on tough questions such as how quickly to shut down coal and who should provide climate aid to developing nations.
The world’s top two drivers of climate change are also divided by a thicket of disagreements on trade,
This article is part of the Road to COP special report, presented by SQM.
The annual U.N. climate summit that starts November 30 has become one of the biggest diplomatic setpieces in the global political calendar.
Organizers are expecting more than 70,000 people to descend upon Dubai’s Expo City: activists, billionaires, presidents, Indigenous leaders, business executives, monarchs and diplomats from every corner of the world. A few will hold sway over the outcome of the talks. Some will make noise
Consumer price inflation slowed to 4.6 per cent in the year to October, lower than forecasts of 4.8 per cent and down from 6.7 per cent in September, fresh data from the Office for National Statistics shows.
The FTSE 100 is up 0.8 per cent in afternoon trading. Among the companies with reports and trading updates today are Experian, SSE, Reckitt, Fuller, Smith & Turner, and Capita.
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LONDON — Rishi Sunak has rolled the dice on weaponizing net zero for electoral advantage. No one knows if it will pay off — and some say it’s already costing him dearly.
In a Downing Street speech on Wednesday — coincidentally on the very afternoon the UN hosted talks in New York on increasing climate ambition — the British prime minister took a red pen to some of his
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Die Konferenz „Transforming Public Utilities: Blockchain Use-Cases over Digital Infrastructure Aligning G20 Agenda“, die am 1. September 2023 im Constitution Club of India in Neu-Delhi stattfand, war ein voller Erfolg und brachte angesehene Experten, Führungskräfte und Enthusiasten zusammen im Bereich der Blockchain-Technologie.
Eine vielfältige Auswahl an Rednern: Die Konferenz umfasste eine beeindruckende Reihe von Rednern aus verschiedenen Sektoren, darunter TRAI, STPI, TCIL, Serenity Shield, CDAC, TEC, IIM Lucknow, HyperLedger Foundation, Gaia Smart Cities, Bharat Web3 Association,
Präsident Biden stolperte am Dienstag bei einem Besuch in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, wo er „Bidenomics“ und die Wirtschaftsagenda seiner Regierung anpries, über seine Worte.
Während seiner Rede in einer Fabrik in Wisconsin konzentrierte sich Biden auf Arbeitsplätze in der Fertigung.
Fast 20 Minuten nach Beginn seiner Rede sprach der Präsident davon, dass Arbeitsplätze in Amerika geschaffen würden, statt dass sie exportiert würden.
„Und sie werden genau hier in Wisconsin und an Orten gebaut, wo Fabriken geschlossen wurden“, sagte er.
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