TAG: Sport
Lagarde to skip G20 to feel the Olympic buzz in Paris
Who can resist the unique buzz of the world's grandest athletic spectacle and the glamor of its opening night? Not Christine Lagarde, by the looks of it. The European Central Bank President is set to skip the G20 meeting of finance ministers and central b...
2 months ago
Don’t bring a plastic bottle to the Olympics — unless you’re Coca-Cola
The French would call it deux poids, deux mesures — literally, “two weights, two scales” — or a double standard, for us anglophones. At the Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games, you won’t be able to bring in plastic bottles. But Coca-Cola, which has exclusi...
2 months ago
Labour’s top policy priorities
LONDON — Keir Starmer has arrived in Downing Street with his new Cabinet. So what are their first priorities?Big-ticket items include decarbonizing the electricity grid by 2030, building 1.5 million homes over five years, hitting long-missed health servic...
2 months ago
Sauna festivals and dance marathons: Estonia knows how to spend EU money
Estonia will allocate part of the EU money received through the Just Transition Fund to finance activities such as a sauna festival, an axe-throwing center and a dance marathon.The Just Transition Fund, one of the European Union’s key tools to support reg...
2 months ago
Saudi oil giant spends well over a billion on ‘sportswashing,’ new report says
Saudi Arabia is spending more than a billion dollars to sponsor global sporting events as it looks to burnish its reputation and assert itself as a global superpower, according to a new report out Wednesday.The report by think tank New Weather Institute r...
4 weeks ago
Leaked documents: Which EU commissioners have the most property, money and influence
BRUSSELS — Just how squeaky clean are the new team of commissioners hoping to work for Ursula von der Leyen?The European Parliament’s legal affairs committee, known as JURI, is going through the declarations of interest of all top EU officials to find out...
1 week ago