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Leave Campaign Defends against Violations of Electoral Law in Brexit

5Jul

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Leave Campaign Defends against Violations of Electoral Law in Brexit

The director of the official campaign for the departure of Great Britain from the European Union, Vote Leave, has today denied that his organisation had committed irregularities in the run-up to the referendum in June 2016. The reason is the forthcoming publication of a report from the British Electoral Commission, in which an overrun of the expenditure ceiling and violations on the electoral law would be determined. According to director Matthew Elliott, the electoral commission will denounce in its report that Vote Leave has tampered with the accounts. "Their initial conclusion is that we have exceeded the expenditure ceiling, that we donated to another group during the campaign, which we should not have done", he said on Sky News. Central to the report is a donation of more than 60...

Angela Merkel Warns Against The Outbreak Of Real Trade War

4Jul

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Angela Merkel Warns Against The Outbreak Of Real Trade War

Angela Merkel warns Against the Outbreak of real Trade War. German Chancellor Angela Merkel warns that a "real trade war" will arise if the US introduces additional import tariffs on European cars, reports The Greater. The German Chancellor does not yet want to speak of a "trade war", but calls it a "trade conflict", German media write Wednesday. "It is worth every effort to ensure that this dispute does not turn into a real war," said Merkel on Wednesday in the German Bundestag. The import tariffs on European cars are, according to her, "much more serious" than the previously added tax on imports of European steel and aluminium. According to the German Chancellor, the financial crisis shows that cooperation works better than unilateral measures. "The international financial c...

Business Activity in the British Services Sector is Increasing

4Jul

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Business Activity in the British Services Sector is Increasing

Business Activity in the British Services Sector is Increasing. The activity in the British services sector grew at a faster pace in June, reports Press Cube. This appeared Wednesday from the purchasing managers index of IHS Markit and CIPS. The index rose from 54.0 in May to 55.1 in June, the most substantial increase since October 2017. A decrease was expected to 53.5. Previously, the purchasing managers' index for British industry remained stable in June compared to May. An index of more than 50 indicates that there is growth, while a figure below 50 means that the industry is shrinking.

Trump puts NATO Under Pressure Over Defence Budget

4Jul

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Europe, International, News, Politics, US

Trump puts NATO Under Pressure Over Defence Budget

Trump puts NATO Under Pressure Over Defence Budget. US President Donald Trump is putting NATO countries under pressure to spend more money on defence, writes Hope News. At the NATO summit, next week in Brussels, he will tell the participating nations that the United States is not the "biggest piggy bank in the world", his spokesperson said. Yesterday, it was already known through The New York Times that Trump sent several NATO countries, including the Netherlands, a firm letter urging the countries to increase their defence spending to 2 percent of the gross domestic product, as agreed in 2014. In the letter, Trump would implicitly threaten with a reduced US military presence in Europe. Just last week it became known that the Pentagon is investigating the reduction of American ...

Trump Threatens To Step Out Of The World Trade Organization

30Jun

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Trump Threatens To Step Out Of The World Trade Organization

Trump Threatens to Step out of the World Trade Organization. US President Donald Trump wants the US to step out of the World Trade Organization (WTO). The American news website Axios writes this Friday by sources within the White House. Incidentally, Trump cannot decide to leave the WTO on his initiative. He can announce it, but for an actual departure, the Congress must implement a change in the law. "He has threatened to get out of the WTO a hundred times," said one of the sources who discussed the issue with Trump himself, posted by Right News. The US president would have told his advisers several times that the US is "always being sewn" by the WTO. According to Trump, the trade organ has been designed by the rest of the world to bother the United States. Trump's advisers w...

CEOs Facebook And Microsoft Criticise Controversial US Immigration Policy

20Jun

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International, News, Technology, US

CEOs Facebook And Microsoft Criticise Controversial US Immigration Policy

CEOs Facebook and Microsoft criticise controversial US Immigration Policy. The CEOs of tech giants Facebook and Microsoft are critical of American border policy, Why children are getting separated from their families, reports Forbes News. Both top executives endorsed this in messages to staff and users on Tuesday night. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg called on the US in a note to "stop this new policy promptly". Microsoft boss Satya Nadella sent an e-mail to staff, which he later also posted on LinkedIn. In this, he called the border policy "cruel and a form of abuse". Earlier this week, Microsoft already discarded the new border policy of the US. Indeed the tech company provides software for the border surveillance of the country. That cooperation is still ongoing. In recent wee...

No Breakthrough On US Import Duties At G7

11Jun

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No Breakthrough On US Import Duties At G7

No Breakthrough on US Import Duties at G7: The countries of the G7 have not been able to make agreements about the import duties that the United States has recently forced on the other states. However, it has been agreed to stay in conversation with each other. The leaders of Germany, France, Great Britain, Japan, Italy and Canada showed Trump in the common talk in Quebec in Quebec all the figures showing that the US import levies are inadequate for trade. Trump replied to his conversation partners by coming up with their values to prove the contrary, reports FOX News Point. After the big conversation, Trump met with French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. After the conversation with Macron, both leaders seemed carefully optimistic about pos...

EU Fights Undermining Practices China To WTO

2Jun

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EU Fights Undermining Practices China To WTO

EU fights Undermining practices China to WTO: The EU is not only going to the World Trade Organization (WTO) to challenge unfair US trade practices. It also files a complaint about China, writes 99 News. The procedure is directly against Chinese legislation that would undermine the intellectual property rights of European companies. European companies are compelled to hand over the ownership or use of their technology to Chinese companies or joint ventures in China, according to EU Commissioner Cecilia Malmström (Trade). Probably they would deprive of the freedom of discussion, patents or trade secrets in contravention of WTO rules. The US has begun a similar procedure. "We can not allow a country to force our companies to transfer this hard-earned expertise to the border," Mal...

US Investigates Foreign Ailments Employee Consulate China

23May

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US Investigates Foreign Ailments Employee Consulate China

US Investigates Foreign Ailments Employee Consulate China. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sent a medical team to China to investigate mysterious ailments of a government official. According to The Week News, the American would show signs of mild brain damage. The employee of the consulate in Guangzhou recently complained about annoying sounds and other inconveniences, such as an oppressive feeling. As far as we perceive, there are no complaints from others. The situation is reminiscent of the acoustic attacks on US embassy personnel in Cuba. Dozens of American diplomats and their relatives were recalled last year when they suffered from, among other things, hearing loss, headaches, dizziness and nausea. According to the US, Cuba carried out targeted attacks with inaudible sou...

American Writer Philip Roth Died in Manhattan Hospital

23May

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American Writer Philip Roth Died in Manhattan Hospital

The American writer Philip Roth died in a hospital in Manhattan. The chronicler of society and Jewish life in the US was 85 years old, reports The English News. Roth made his debut in 1959 with the collection of stories Farewell, Columbus. He has written more than thirty books, including the sexually revolutionary novel Portnoy's complaint and American pastoralism, for which he won a Pulitzer prize in 1998. He was for years as a contender for the Nobel Prize for Literature, but he did not receive it. He did win several other prestigious awards, such as the National Book Award (twice), the Pen / Faulkner Award (three times) and the Man Booker International Prize. American trilogy American Pastoral, I was married to a Communist, and The human blemish is together called the Americ...