President Macron, elected in May over Marine Le Pen, plans to flesh out proposals for a new phase in European Union integration. An official at his office said the 39-year-old president believed a pooled budget for the euro currency zone would be necessary. His planned statement on Europe follows yesterday’s […]
Daily Archives: September 25, 2017
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Mr Macron ran on a platform of EU reform in May’s election and has made the overhaul of the union’s institutions one of his major projects. The French president needs the backing of Mrs Merkel to force through his changes, including giving the eurozone its own budget, a finance minister […]
Spanish police have arrested Catalan officials who were involved in organising the October 1 vote and they also seized electoral material, including ballot papers and ballot boxes. This led to several days of protests in Barcelona. But Carles Puigdemont, the head of the Catalan regional government, has said the referendum […]
Eman Abdul Atti died this morning at Burjeel hospital in Abu Dhabi after years battling heart and kidney problems. The Egyptian was bedridden for more than two decades and could not support her own weight standing up. She was being treated by a team of 20 specialist doctors and had […]
1. Until the 17th century, this season was most often referred to as “harvest”. 2. In Greek myth, autumn was a sign of the grief of harvest goddess Demeter at her daughter Persephone being abducted to the Underworld. 3. According to an old superstition, catching falling leaves in autumn brings […]
The West Brom defender explained following his £5m move to the Hawthorns that he was a huge fan of manager Tony Pulis and felt he could improve his game after 13 years coming through the ranks at Arsenal under Wenger. “Obviously it is different to what I have had before […]
You know a topic is trending when the likes of Tesla’s Elon Musk and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg publicly bicker about its potential risks and rewards. In this case, Musk says he fears artificial intelligence will lead to World War III because nations will compete for A.I. superiority. Zuckerberg, meanwhile, has […]
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