After testimonies of clandestine restaurant openings were shared across social media over the past few days, Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire told RTL in an interview Monday morning that if restaurants were to serve customers again, they would first be deprived of solidarity funds for the month.
“It’s extremely hard for restaurant owners, morally and economically,” he acknowledged. However, “that does not justify not respecting the rules, which are sanitary rules,” the minister added.
The government should hear this “cry of distress”, the secretary-general of France’s union of hospitality trades and industries, Frédéric Jeanjean, told France Info on Monday. “They should tell me things clearly and tell us that we’ll be here for three months or six months so that we’ll still have visibility,” said the trade unionist.
World Economic Forum: China’s Xi Jinping warns global community against starting ‘new cold war’ The Chinese president s comments come in the backdrop of Joe Biden s recent plans to revitalise global alliances to counter China s growing influence This video grab taken on January 25, 2021, from the website of the World Economic Forum shows China s President Xi Jinping speaking from Beijing as he opens an all-virtual World Economic Forum. AP
Paris: Chinese President Xi Jinping warned global leaders at an all-virtual Davos forum Monday against starting a new Cold War while he championed multilateralism.
Representing the only major economy to record economic growth last year, Xi presented himself as the defender of multilateralism, as he did at the same forum four years ago when Donald Trump was about to assume the US presidency.
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This video grab taken January 25, 2021, from the website of the World Economic Forum shows China’s President Xi Jinping speaking from Beijing as he opens an all-virtual World Economic Forum, which usually takes place in Davos, Switzerland. World Economic Forum (WEF) handout pic via AFP
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PARIS, Jan 26 Chinese President Xi Jinping warned global leaders at an all-virtual Davos forum yesterday against starting a “new Cold War” while he championed multilateralism.
Representing the only major economy to record economic growth last year, Xi presented himself as the defender of multilateralism, as he did at the same forum four years ago when Donald Trump was about to assume the US presidency.
The inauguration of Joe Biden represents not only a new chapter for the United States, but for the world. For allies and adversaries alike, new relationships with the world’s superpower are already taking shape.
In much of Europe, there is a mood of optimism.
“After Joe Biden was elected, you could hear a collective sigh of relief going through European corridors of power,” said Rem Korteweg, foreign policy analyst at the Clingendael Institute in the Netherlands.
Spain’s new taxes on digital and financial services, approved last year, came into force on Saturday (16 January). The first collection is expected in March or April, EURACTIV’s partner EFE reports.