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Thousands of businesses that received CEWS may not have been eligible: auditor general
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Hungary blocks €18bn-worth of EU aid for Ukraine
Hungary has blocked an €18bn package of EU financial support for Ukraine, deepening a rift between prime minister Viktor Orbán…
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It is the west’s duty to help Ukraine win this war
Ukraine has survived the onslaught of its brutal foe. It has humiliated the Russian army and regained much lost territory.…
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Government hits back at ‘race to the bottom’ claims as battle over future of City rules rages on
Chief secretary to the Treasury John Glen has hit back at critics of the government’s ‘Big Bang 2.0’ plans for…
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Lebanon’s constitutional void is an opportunity for regional players
The writer is author of ‘Black Wave’ The US vs Iran football match in Qatar, one of the most politically…
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World Bank warns of mounting debt burden for poorer countries
The world’s poorest countries face three years of soaring debt service costs, draining vital resources from spending on health, education…
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Germany can take part in EU’s €800bn Covid recovery fund, court rules
Germany’s constitutional court has thrown out two legal challenges to the EU’s €800bn Covid recovery fund, in a move that…
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Latvia bans exiled Russian news channel over ‘threat to national security’
Latvia has withdrawn the broadcasting licence of exiled Russian news channel TV Rain following accusations that its journalists violated laws…
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Robinhood to offer retirement accounts to users who love long-shot bets on risky assets
Robinhood said on 6 December it will start offering retirement accounts, in a plan to convince the next generation of…
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Amazon agrees final deal to close EU antitrust probes
Amazon has reached a final deal with EU antitrust regulators over concerns its use of data undermined rivals, in a…
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Cost of UK Christmas dinner rises by nearly 10%
The average cost of Christmas dinner is expected to rise by almost 10 per cent this year compared with last…
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The year Europe’s innocent worldview fell apart
Until such time as a court rescinds the Louisiana Purchase, Europe does not have Texan gas or North Dakotan oil.…
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UK construction growth slows as mortgage rates hit housing market
UK construction growth has slowed to a three-month low as higher mortgage rates hit the housing market, according to a closely…
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Chinese battery makers set to dominate Europe’s car industry
For decades, Europe has been a global hub of combustion engine production but as the industry shifts to electric vehicles,…
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JPMorgan hires Deutsche, UBS and BNP Paribas trio for mid-market push
JPMorgan has hired a trio of dealmakers for a unit that targets deals in the mid-market. Thibaud de Maria has…
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What Celsius Network’s bankruptcy case means for other failed crypto platforms
The judge overseeing Celsius Network’s bankruptcy case is expected to decide if the crypto firm has full ownership rights over…
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China’s Communist party strives for unified image at Jiang Zemin funeral
The Chinese Communist party honoured Jiang Zemin with three minutes of nationwide silence and a memorial service broadcast live on…
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Do you really want to live to be 100?
I’m one of life’s optimists. When I think about living to be 100 years old, I picture a birthday party…
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FirstFT: Renminbi hits 12-week high in China rally
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Sunak dilutes housebuilding pledge in face of Tory revolt
Rishi Sunak has watered down a manifesto commitment to build 300,000 new homes a year in the UK in an…
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French Pornhub case shows how hard it is to regulate the internet
The writer, a lawyer at Orrick in Paris, was previously counsel for Twitter UK Within the past few days, Elon…
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The go-slow gambit on Biden’s car subsidies
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LSE’s voluntary carbon market makes debut listing
Launched back in October, the London Stock Exchange’s voluntary carbon market has listed its first fund. Foresight Sustainable Forestry, an…
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Brooklyn’s in the House
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Interest rates are going up this week: What you need to know about the Bank of Canada decision
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Fintech Files: BlockFi bust, ex-Celsius directors tell all, Tory super-crypto donor does it again
Just when you thought crypto couldn’t get more chaotic, another firm has filed for bankruptcy — lender BlockFi. The firm was one of…
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Papua New Guinea’s population size puzzles prime minister and experts
Papua New Guinea’s prime minister says he does not know the exact size of his country’s population after a report…
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FTX’s bankruptcy triggers global squabbles over ownership and control of crypto firm’s assets
The collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX has opened a hornet’s nest of squabbles between foreign governments and its new US chief executive,…
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Javid’s exit adds gravitas as Tories limp to the end
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Canada to send more warships through Taiwan Strait in signal to China
Canada plans to sail more warships through the Taiwan Strait to affirm the waters claimed by China are international, after…
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Court ruling paves way for sale of Gupta’s Belgian steel plants
Sanjeev Gupta faces losing control of his steel plants in Belgium after the approval of a judicial restructuring of his…
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Finance ministers to tussle over Hungary funding
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Cheap loans set to give young Greeks a shot at a home of their own
Katerina Giousi had given up on buying a place to call home. “It was just unthinkable,” the 29-year-old hairdresser, recently…
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Louise Richardson: ‘I do wish our students were more resilient about nasty remarks’
Britons have a love-hate relationship with Oxford university. It designed a Covid-19 vaccine, yet oozes academic feuds. It represents aspiration,…
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China steps on Washington’s toes as Xi heads to Saudi Arabia
President Xi Jinping will this week pay his first visit to Saudi Arabia in six years as part of efforts…
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Home secretary welcomes report calling for crackdown on asylum seekers
Suella Braverman, UK home secretary, has welcomed a report calling for a major crackdown on asylum seekers who come to…
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Labour to set out plans for devolving UK economic powers
Sir Keir Starmer, Labour leader, will on Monday set out plans to devolve economic powers and create a series of…
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FirstFT: EU will simplify aid rules to compete with Biden’s climate package
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English councils struggle to maintain Ukraine refugee scheme as war drags on
There were deer outside her window and pheasants in the woods when Ukrainian refugee Alina Shakirova and her eight-year-old son…
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The easy money era is over but world leaders have not got the memo
The writer is chair of Rockefeller International While global investors increasingly recognise that the easy money era is over, many…
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US college football: big money game is now beyond a jock
In 2035 or so, an economist may win a Nobel Prize for showing that post-pandemic inflation did not come from…
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Investors bet on interest rate cuts in 2023 despite Fed signals
Investors predict the Federal Reserve will cut rates when faced with a slowing economy next year, betting the US central…
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Europe can withstand risk to winter energy supplies, says French grid chief
The head of the French national grid has played down the risk of a breakdown in electricity flows and sweeping…
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New York’s ‘zombie’ office towers teeter as interest rates rise
During a prolonged bull market fuelled by historically low interest rates and nearly free money Doug Harmon and his team…
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Russia’s deportations of Ukrainian children stir accusations of genocide
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Eleanor Jackson Piel, US civil rights lawyer, 1920-2022
Eleanor Jackson Piel became a lawyer because classmates told her she could not get into law school. “So of course…
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Hakeem Jeffries, big tent Democrat tasked with bringing back the House
When Hakeem Jeffries was growing up in Crown Heights, a working-class neighbourhood in Brooklyn, his congresswoman was Shirley Chisholm, a…
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Kim adopts trappings of royalty as he presents ‘princess’ to North Korea
When North Korean state media published photos of Kim Jong Un at the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile last…
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Nurses strikes could hit A&E services in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
British hospital leaders are holding intensive talks with local union officials to try to limit the impact of strikes on…
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‘The labour market is still hot’ — what economists say about the numbers
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