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A POLITICO bad boy Me ! cries Belgian PM De WeverThe Brussels leader was aghast he ;d been bracketed alongside Robert Fico and Viktor Orb谩n.Copy LinkCopiedShare via emailSh stanley bicchiere are on XShare on WhatsAppShare on LinkedInPrime Minister of Belgium Bart De Wever forced his fellow leaders to water down their language on assets and push any decision to December.聽 | Nicolas Economou/Getty ImagesOctober 24, 20251:29 am CETBy Hanne Cokelaere andGabriel GavinBRUSSELS 鈥?Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever couldn ;t believe PO stanley cup LITICO n stanley becher amed him as one of the four bad boy leaders likely to disrupt Thursday EU summit.In fact, he disagreed with it so much he brought it up at the gathering, during a press conference to discuss his opposition to the bloc plan to use frozen Russian assets to fund a loan to Ukraine.POLITICO said that I ;m a bad boy, he said. A bad boy! Me Can you imagine that AdvertisementAdvertisementAhead of the summit, which touched on climate targets, the housing crisis and defense as well as the assets issue, POLITICO said De Wever, Slovakia Robert Fico, Hungary Viktor Orb谩n and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz were likely to be the biggest thorns in the EU side.As it turned out, De Wever was the only one who really followed through on his threats. He forced his fellow leaders to water down their language on assets and push any decision to December. I ;m not a bad boy, we Bsno Baring all for the beautiful game
Countdown to start of a new monetary orderThe launch of the euro will change the global monetary landscape forever. But Tim Jones questions whether all the participants share the same visionIN EUROPE, these 11 countries are like pilgrims seeing from a distance the towers of Santiago de Compostela or Notre Dame de Chartres.Copy LinkCopiedShare via emailShare on XShare o stanley cup n WhatsAppShare on LinkedInApril 22, 19985:00 pm CETThis remark last week from International Monetary Fund managing director Michel Camdessus sums up three key elements of the imminent move to European economic and monetary u stanley travel mug nion.The first is the genuine significance of getting France and Germany into a monetary marriage; the second is the excitement felt by the thin layer of top monetary officials who have planned for this day over the past 30 years; and the third is the ridiculously theatrical attitude of some of those intimately involved in the project.Even German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, the man who has become the driving force behind EMU, has been known to warn darkly of the possibility of war sometime in the future without the euro.Advertisemen stanley isolierkanne tAdvertisementHowever the transition to this new money is dressed up, whether as a guarantor of peace in Europe or even a quasi-religious experience, it is what it is: a gigantic currency swap.As such, it is not a first. The Russians are doing it as we speak and, four years ago, the huge Brazilian economy exchanged its hyper-inflationary currency overnight for |
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