TAG: Mayors
Anne Hidalgo’s vision of a greener Paris faces political reckoning
PARIS — Nearly 10 years ago, newly minted Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo made “a genuine energy and environmental transition” a cornerstone of her plans for the city.The Socialist politician stayed true to that platform — in the process becoming one of the most...
6 months ago
Paris Olympics fiasco looms as Seine (still) unsafe for swimming
PARIS — On Tuesday morning, athletes should have been thrashing down the River Seine in Paris, battling to come out on top of the Olympic triathlon's first leg: 1,500 meters of open water swimming.Instead, not a single swimmer was in sight.The reason? Onc...
2 months ago
Forget Olympic athletes — will Parisians ever want to swim in the Seine?
PARIS — In the minds of French officials, the plan was ambitious but simple: Clean up the Seine for the 2024 Olympics and convince the world that everyone could enjoy a carefree dip in the notoriously murky river next summer.Well, Olympic athletes did ult...
2 months ago
Italy’s budget mess leaves earthquake-stricken towns in limbo
AMATRICE, Italy — Gaetano Galli surveyed the quiet street and casually pointed out where the earthquake had wrought its havoc. There, the splintered wreck of a bungalow that caved in on a family of six; across the road, the spot where over a dozen were cr...
1 month ago
Ukraine drones target refinery, power plants near Moscow, Russia says
Ukraine launched drones against power plants and a refinery near Moscow in an overnight attack, Moscow said on Sunday. The Russian defense ministry said on Telegram that the country's air defense systems shot down 158 Ukrainian drones over 15 Russian regi...
1 month ago
Too fast, too furious: Paris speed limit crashes into right-wing opposition
PARIS — France's new transport minister hadn’t even been on the job for a week when he sat down with Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo in a last-ditch effort to get her to reconsider a controversial policy: slowing the speed limit on the capital's main ring road.T...
2 weeks ago
British government split over new-look Brexit deal
LONDON — Keir Starmer heads to Brussels Wednesday on a mission fraught with political danger: the prospect of a new youth mobility scheme.For some, the revived plan would be a joyous breakthrough after years of testy relations between the European Union a...
2 weeks ago