Tag: Public transport
Rishi Sunak’s trying to drive in both lanes on net-zero – POLITICO
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LONDON — Save the planet without offending motorists or your own warring MPs. What could be simpler?
Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party is languishing in the national polls as an election looms next year. But the U.K. prime minister has seized on a recent by-election victory to side with drivers against government environmental action, and enraged green groups by pressing ahead with a plan to allow more oil and gas
What Goodreads Is Doing to the Publishing World
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When Megan Nolan published her first novel, fellow authors warned her in “ominous tones” about the website Goodreads. The young Irish writer looked at the book’s listing there in the winter of 2020, the day the first proof copy arrived at her house. “Nobody but me and the
12 people ready to ruin Russia next – POLITICO
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Vladimir Putin’s disastrous military adventure in Ukraine has raised the prospect that his 22-year rule could be nearing its end. But will he go, or will he have to be pushed?
Seven months into the Russian president’s war of aggression, his troops have suffered massive losses of men and equipment and are in headlong retreat in eastern Ukraine. Putin’s order last week to mobilize hundreds of thousands of men has descended into chaos,
Images of home, old and new – POLITICO
In this ongoing project, POLITICO is hosting a sort of digital diary following Ukrainian refugees across Europe as they adjust to lives forever changed by war.
For this installment, we asked six refugees to illustrate their experiences with videos or photos, and to tell us how things have changed. Their answers included stories of adjustment and loss, deep grief and small pleasures, and in one case a return to home to Ukraine.
Anna Vyshniakova
Location: France
Photo 1: This mural
America Is in the ‘Figure It Out Yourself’ Era of the Pandemic
In 2018, while reporting on pandemic preparedness in the Democratic Republic of Congo, I heard many people joking about the fictional 15th article of the country’s constitution: Débrouillez-vous, or “Figure it out yourself.” It was a droll and weary acknowledgment that the government won’t save you, and you must make do with the resources you’ve got. The United States is now firmly in the débrouillez-vous era of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Across the country, almost all government efforts to curtail
Anne Hidalgo’s sack of Paris – POLITICO
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PARIS — If Anne Hidalgo met her archenemy in the street, it’s unlikely she would recognize him. The mayor of Paris’ most ardent foe is an anonymous 52-year-old who vents his anger from the safety of a computer screen. In less than a year, his hashtag #saccageparis, documenting the grubbiness and disarray on the streets of the French capital, has become a full-fledged movement to take Hidalgo down.
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How Germany’s big parties line up on climate, mobility policy – POLITICO
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BERLIN — When it comes to tackling climate change, Germany’s leading political parties aren’t exactly on the same page.
While all four main parties focus on measures to slash the country’s carbon emissions, there are stark differences in how they plan to do so in practice, according to a POLITICO analysis of the manifestos of the Christian Democrats, the Greens, the Social Democrats and the Free Democrats ahead of federal elections set for