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Chief economist update: COVID with a vengeance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021
... 24 December 2020 and before the ink on the signatures of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, European Council President Charles Michel and UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson on 30 December 2020 has dried, Britain's already battling a ...

Two-year road to Brexit begins

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2017
... (EU). On the 29th of March 2017, the British prime minister sent the official letter to the president of the European Council, Donald Tusk, "I hereby notify the European Council in accordance with Article 50(2) of the Treaty on European Union of the ...

Australian elections just gave uncertainty a top up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2016
... of not only the EU but also of western political civilization in its entirety." -Donald Tusk, President of the European Council I thought he went over the top and got carried away when I read Monsieur Tusk's foreboding at the time. I guess the EC president ...

Parting could be such sweet sorrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2016
... will. More so, when I tell you that this was made by no less than Monsieur Donald Tusk - the President of the European Council. OK, Tusk may have been a teenie-weenie bit carried away with that foreboding, but he is correct in saying that, "no one can ...

Punishing Putin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
... leaders of Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States and the President of the European Council and President of the European Commission, join together today to condemn the Russian Federation's clear violation of ...

Economist and former EU commissioner appointed Italian PM designate

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2011
... slapped on the energy sector. In welcoming Monti's appointment and the formation of a national unity government, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission President JosA(C) Manuel Barroso said it was sending out the right message ...

Fed & RBA on the ball

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
... Ireland goes, it's going... to do something, that is. It's got the weight of Europe plus the IMF against it. European Council president Herman van Rompuy has even upped the ante, declaring that '"We're in a survival crisis. We all have to work together ...
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