Analysis: Europe’s Green Revolution? Italy’s spending plans raise doubts

That amounts to 31% of the EU funds, versus the 37% prescribed.

Cingolani’s illustrious scientific career has focused on areas such as robotics and nanotechnologies rather than climate change.

Driven by low interest rates, confidence in property’s long-term safety and a fear of missing out, the boom is putting buyers increasingly at odds with the government, which has been warning that purchasers should exercise caution.

China’s 2021 gold demand will see annual growth and will revert to pre-pandemic levels if there are no dramatic changes to the global economic and geo-political situation, a World Gold Council official said on Thursday.

BENGALURU/NEW DELHI -Several Indian states have run out of COVID-19 vaccines a day before a planned widening of a nationwide inoculation drive, authorities said on Friday, as new infections in the crisis-hit country surged to another daily record.

Barclays on Friday reported a profit before tax for the three months ended March 31 of 2.4 billion pounds , up from 923 million pounds a year ago and above the 1.76 billion pound average of analysts’ forecasts.

BUDAPEST— Hungary will loosen several COVID-19 pandemic restrictions for holders of a government-issued immunity card in the latest round of reopenings that the government has tied to the number of administered vaccines.

A local television news crew spotted an Arizona murder suspect near the Atlanta airport and flagged police, resulting in the man being taken back into custody after a daylong search.

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding has frozen pay rises for senior executives in 2021 and is instead giving junior staff bigger salary increases, sources said, in an effort to preserve its workforce amid a regulatory clampdown.

market with its VinFast line of cars and hoping that electric SUVs and a battery leasing model will be enough to woo consumers away from homegrown market leaders like Tesla and General Motors Co.

early in 2020 as the pandemic crushed travel, has been trimming its bank holdings over the past year in a major shift for a portfolio that had roughly 41% of its fair value concentrated in banks, insurers and financial firms at the end of 2019.When he addresses shareholders, another potential theme could be how businesses adjust as the recovery unfolds: With vaccines rolling out, large corporations are re-examining everything from customer demand to their return-to-office plans.

Business news and information publisher Forbes Media LLC is in talks to go public through a merger with a special purpose acquisition company as it attracts new acquisition interest, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday.

The Biden administration faces a major dilemma in its dispute with the European Union over Trump-era steel and aluminum tariffs: back down to avoid acute pain for Harley-Davidson Inc and whiskey distillers or stick with the duties even though they are now exacerbating acute shortages for U.S.

It would complement or come as an alternative to a possible foreign-funded factory, with the aim to double the EU’s market share in semiconductors to 20% by 2030, a target set out by European internal market chief Thierry Breton.

China’s Huawei Technologies is in talks to take control of a small domestic automaker’s electric vehicle unit, two people with direct knowledge of the matter said, in what is seen as a strategic shift for the world’s largest telecom equipment maker.

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