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Montevideo, December 16th 2025 - 10:10 UTC

Tag: European Union

  • Monday, August 5th 2019 - 09:00 UTC

    HSBC CEO steps down, “by mutual agreement”; search for a replacement has started

    Mr Flint, 51 said: “I have agreed with the board that today's good interim results indicate that this is the right time for change, both for me and the bank.”

    The chief executive of HSBC has stepped down after the bank said it needed a change in leadership to address a “challenging global environment”. John Flint is giving up the role he has held for a year and a half “by mutual agreement with the board”.

  • Saturday, August 3rd 2019 - 18:07 UTC

    Bolsonaro's haircut a coarse gesture from Brazil to France's FM

    Bolsonaro is a notorious skeptic of climate change and his haircut was broadcast.

    Brazil's authorities maintained Friday President Jair Bolsonaro's haircut was not the reason for leaving France's Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian in the lurch and argued it was all a matter of agenda.

  • Friday, August 2nd 2019 - 09:50 UTC

    UK's pro-EU Liberals win seat in by election; Johnson's majority ever so frigale

    The loss reduces PM Johnson’s working majority to just one ahead of an expected showdown with lawmakers in the autumn over his plan to take Britain out of EU

    Britain's pro-European Union Liberal Democrats won the parliamentary seat of Brecon and Radnorshire from the governing Conservatives on Friday, a blow to Prime Minister Boris Johnson in his first electoral test since taking office. The vote was triggered when Conservative lawmaker Chris Davies was ousted by a petition of constituents after being convicted of falsifying expenses.

  • Tuesday, July 30th 2019 - 09:35 UTC

    France leading the search for the next head of the IMF

    While France has not openly expressed support for Kristalina Georgieva, French officials have spoken highly of her nomination

    France is seen supporting Kristalina Georgieva to be the next head of the International Monetary Fund as the EU seeks to agree on a single candidate ahead of the lender's Sept 6 deadline, according to several European officials familiar with the deliberations.

  • Monday, July 29th 2019 - 09:57 UTC

    EU warns Argentina and Brazil on credit agencies ratings regulations

    Valdis Dombrovskis, EU commission vice-president told the FT that the decision on rating agencies set “some kind of a precedent for monitoring adherence”.

    The European Commission will deem that Canada, Brazil, Singapore, Argentina and Australia don't regulate credit ratings agencies with the same rigor as the EU, the Financial Times reported on Sunday, citing a document. The decision would withdraw some market access rights of the country, removing a status that makes it possible for European banks to rely on the ratings.

  • Thursday, July 25th 2019 - 08:09 UTC

    Boris, the last Prime Minister of the United Kingdom?

    Johnson wouldn’t be in Downing Street today if there had not been an election in Britain two months ago

    By Gwynne Dyer - It has been suggested that Boris Johnson (who becomes the prime minister of the United Kingdom, UK) is what you would get if Donald Trump had been educated at Eton and Oxford. Maybe, although there is a great gulf between Trump’s bombastic self-promotion and Johnson’s self-deprecating, rather shambolic persona.

  • Tuesday, July 23rd 2019 - 09:55 UTC

    All ready for Boris Johnson to attempt to overcome the Brexit hurdle

    The new party leader will be announced on Tuesday and take over as prime minister on Wednesday.

    Ballots closed in the race to become Britain's next prime minister on Monday, with the favorite Boris Johnson facing more defections by ministers over his Brexit plan. The country's new leader will take the reins this week and have just three months to attempt to resolve a three-year Brexit crisis that could damage economies on both sides of the Channel and determine the fate of generations of Britons.

  • Monday, July 22nd 2019 - 09:42 UTC

    Hammond will resign if Boris Johnson becomes prime minister: he does not accept a no-deal Brexit

    
A loyal Conservative, Hammond said his fears over a no deal forced him to vote against the government for the first time in his 22-year political career last week

    British finance minister Philip Hammond said on Sunday that he would resign if Boris Johnson became prime minister because he felt unable to support a leader happy to take the country out of the European Union without a deal.

  • Saturday, July 20th 2019 - 08:11 UTC

    UK Full-blown recession in a no deal exit from the EU?

    A no-deal Brexit could cause the economy to contract by 2% by the end of 2020, the OBR said, referring to International Monetary Fund forecasts.

    Britain might be entering a full-blown recession that a no-deal exit from the European Union would compound, blowing a 30 billion-pound hole in the public finances, a budget watchdog said. The Office for Budget Responsibility said the economy probably flat-lined or might have contracted in the second quarter.

  • Friday, July 19th 2019 - 09:57 UTC

    Falklands' government and fishing industry reject MLA Spink's 'breezy' Brexit

    Fortuna General Manager Mike Poole: ”Falklands-flagged fishing fleet is known as a quality operation that contributes to the high standard of the Red Ensign”

    The impact of Brexit on the Falkland Islands' fishing industry could be “significant” according to the fishing industry, contradicting lawmaker MLA Roger Spink’s view in last week's Penguin News that there were measures that could be undertaken to mitigate the impact of potential tariffs.