German Greens Get an Early Edge in Race to Succeed Merkel Bloomberg 52 mins ago Arne Delfs and Iain Rogers
(Bloomberg) Germany’s Greens are in position to make history, surging past Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc in the race to replace the four-term chancellor after September’s election.
The party that’s vowing to increase spending and tighten controls on the finance industry which finished a distant sixth in the last national vote in 2017 held a seven percentage-point lead in a poll published just hours after Christian Democratic Union leader Armin Laschet secured the conservative nomination in a bruising battle.
Germany’s Greens are in position to make history, surging past Angela Merkel’s conservative bloc in the race to replace the four-term chancellor after September’s election.
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DELFT, Netherlands (BUSINESS WIRE) Apr 12, 2021
Quantum Delta NL, the public-private foundation, which launched in 2020 with the mandate to coordinate and execute the Netherlandâs National Agenda for Quantum Technology (NAQT), today announced that it has been awarded â¬615 million from the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy to power the advancement of quantum technology.
The capital has been awarded by the National Growth Fund, an investment fund created by the cabinet of the Netherlands to boost economic growth and maintain prosperity for the foreseeable future. An independent commission tasked with reviewing investment proposals was led by Jeroen Dijsselbloem, former Chairman of the Board of Governors of the European Stability Mechanism, which includes HRH Prince Constantijn van Oranje-Nassau and Robbert Dijkgraaf, director of the Institute of Advanced Studies in Princeton.
The Commission has today taken steps to ensure that borrowing under the temporary recovery instrument NextGenerationEU
will be financed on the most advantageous terms for EU Member States and their citizens. The Commission will use a diversified funding strategy to raise up to around €800 billion in current prices until 2026.
Interesting that they claim to know what future bond markets will be doing, but I was already expecting that the ECB will be brought in to buy at least some of the bonds. The borrowing will be large in annual terms and any repayment is kicked safely into the very long grass. The choice of 2058 looks to be driven by the fact that the ECB only buys bonds up to the 30 year maturity.