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  • Tuesday, August 1st 2017 - 06:36 UTC

    Hammond in Brazil announced the doubling of support for bilateral trade

    Chancellor of the Exchequer in Brasilia with his counterpart Henrique Meirelles

    The Chancellor, Philip Hammond, has unveiled a series of new commercial agreements with Brazil on Monday, on day one of his visit to showcase British business and deepen trade and economic ties with South America’s biggest economies. Among the measures has been doubling support to £3 billion, to promote bilateral trade.

  • Tuesday, August 1st 2017 - 06:25 UTC

    Hammond arrives in Argentina on trade mission; scheduled to meet Macri

    Hammond is scheduled to meet president Mauricio Macri, Economy minister Nicolas Dujovne, Finance minister Luis Caputo and foreign minister Jorge Faurie.

    Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond is scheduled to arrive in Buenos Aires Tuesday evening following a two day business promotion visit to Brazil. It will be the first time a leading UK cabinet minister sets foot in Argentina in sixteen years; the last was when ex Prime Minister Tony Blair met ex president Fernando De la Rua in the Iguazu falls in 2001.

  • Monday, July 31st 2017 - 16:43 UTC

    Rome and Vatican praying for rain: city avoids, temporarily, compulsory water rationing

    “We avoided 1.5 million people ending up without water. It is good news for everyone! But we will not let our guard down,” Raggi wrote on Twitter.

    Rome narrowly avoided water rationing after a deal between the regional government and the city's water company defused a row over drawing water from a drought-affected lake. Taps had been due to run dry for 1.5 million Romans for up to eight hours a day from Monday, and Mayor Virginia Raggi urged the central government to intervene.

  • Monday, July 31st 2017 - 09:57 UTC

    Cabinet in a state of civil war over Brexit, says Lib-Dem leader Vince Cable

    Vince Cable said the latest clash “reveals a deep, unbridgeable chasm between the Brexit fundamentalist and the pragmatists”.

    The rift between senior ministers on how long to allow the free movement of people after Brexit shows “all the signs of a Cabinet in a state of civil war”, Vince Cable has said. The Liberal Democrat leader's remarks come after International Trade Secretary Liam Fox dismissed the idea that a consensus had been reached on the issue by the Prime Minister's top table.

  • Monday, July 31st 2017 - 08:18 UTC

    Putin reacts to sanctions and expels 755 US diplomats from Moscow

    “The personnel of the US diplomatic missions in Russia will be cut by 755 people and will equal the number of Russian diplomatic personnel in the United States”

    Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a television interview that the U.S. must cut the size of its diplomatic force in his country by more than half, from about 1,210 to 455. Putin said on Sunday that the cut will make the size of the U.S. diplomatic mission in his country equal to that of Russia's diplomatic corps in the U.S.

  • Monday, July 31st 2017 - 08:06 UTC

    Spanish economy recovering strongly reaches pre-2008 size

    Spain was bailed out in 2012 by the EU at the height of Europe's debt crisis. Its figures were among the strongest of a batch of latest European economic data

    Spain's economy grew by 0.9% in the second quarter thanks to improved exports and household spending. The growth figure, a first estimate from the National Statistics Institute (INE), suggests the country's economy has finally grown back to the size it was before the credit crunch of 2008.

  • Monday, July 31st 2017 - 07:46 UTC

    Open divisions on post-Brexit policy surface in the British cabinet

    Allowing free movement of people after Britain leaves the European Union would not “keep faith” with the Brexit vote, international trade secretary Liam Fox said

    Allowing free movement of people after Britain leaves the European Union would not “keep faith” with the Brexit vote, the international trade secretary said, underling divisions in the government over the issue. Liam Fox told the Sunday Times that senior government ministers had not reached a consensus on retaining free movement of people for a transitional period, a proposal outlined by finance minister Philip Hammond on Friday.

  • Saturday, July 29th 2017 - 14:53 UTC

    Hammond admits post-Brexit transitional deal up, but until general election in 2022

    “Many things would look similar” the day after Brexit - on 29 March 2019 - as the UK moved gradually towards a new relationship with the EU, Hammond said

    Any “transitional deal” in the period after Brexit must end by June 2022, the time of the next general election, Philip Hammond has said. But the chancellor said there must be “business as usual, life as normal” for Britons as the UK left the EU.

  • Saturday, July 29th 2017 - 13:58 UTC

    Brexit controversy: Ireland against any “economic border” with North Ireland

    “As far as this government is concerned there shouldn't be an economic border. We don't want one,” Prime Minister Varadkar told reporters at a briefing in Dublin.

    Ireland is against the imposition of an “economic border” with Northern Ireland and the Irish government is not going to help Britain design one, Prime Minister Leo Varadkar said on Friday.

  • Saturday, July 29th 2017 - 12:55 UTC

    Century anniversary of the Third Battle of Ypres, remembered for the scale of casualties

    The cemetery near the Belgian village of Passchendaele is the largest Commonwealth War Grave in the world

    Next 31 July 2017 will mark a century since the beginning of the Third Battle of Ypres – widely known as Passchendaele. The UK Government, in collaboration with the Belgian Government, the Commonwealth War Graves Commission, and the Royal British Legion is hosting a series of events to mark one of the defining battles of the First World War.