Tag: Britains
Death of Elizabeth II: Britain’s economy pays a heavy price
Baptist Morin 06:10, September 12, 2022 Great Britain is about to experience an important sequence. The funeral of Queen Elizabeth II will take place in the coming days. A few…
The world in 1952 when Elizabeth II became Britain’s Queen
On February 6, 1952, Elizabeth became Queen. The monarch inherits the crown at a time when Britain is still a global empire, when Stalin rules the USSR and Mao China…
Britain’s Minister for Unbridled Growth
DIn a guest article in the Financial Times earlier this week, Kwasi Kwarteng promised that the new Truss government would “unashamedly pro growth”. The text was read as an economic…
Britain’s new PM Truss wants more North Sea oil and gas extraction
Speaking in her first Prime Minister’s Question Time in Parliament, Ms Truss said she wanted to find ways to cope with rising energy costs for businesses. “I want to see…
Faced with record inflation, Britain’s main cargo port begins eight-day strike
This is the first strike since 1989 at the Port of Felixstowe, and the latest in a series of industrial action to demand better wages. A strike scheduled to last…
Britain’s Vodafone is preparing to sell its Hungarian subsidiary for 1.8 billion euros – 08/22/2022 at 09:53
(AOF) – British telecom operator Vodafone has announced that it has reached agreements with 4iG Public Limited Company and Corvinus Zrt, a Hungarian state-owned holding company regarding the potential sale…
UK-Dockers at Britain’s biggest freight port to go on strike
LONDON, Aug 21 (Reuters) – More than 1,900 workers at Britain’s biggest container port will begin an eight-day strike on Sunday, another episode in a series of social unrest that…
Pressure on supply chains increases: strike begins in Britain’s largest cargo port
Pressure on supply chains is increasing Strike begins in UK’s largest cargo port 08/21/2022 2:22 p.m The wave of strikes in Great Britain reaches the largest British container port: In…
Britain’s economy contracted less than expected in the second quarter
LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s economy contracted less than expected in the second quarter and in June alone, preliminary data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) showed on Friday. Domestic…
Eutelsat is negotiating the purchase of Britain’s OneWeb to create a European broadband internet giant from space
Another step in the race to deliver high-speed Internet to the entire planet from space. On Monday July 25, the French satellite operator, Eutelsat, announced that it had entered into…
Britain’s Sunak to put government in crisis -Times interview
Over the next week, Sunak intends to make the case that Britain faces a national emergency on five fronts, including the economy, the National Health Service and migration, the newspaper…
Britain’s Deborah James, ‘unwaveringly courageous’ presenter of cancer podcast, dies
Deborah James, presenter of a podcast dedicated to cancer, died on Tuesday June 29 after raising millions of pounds for cancer research in a campaign that went viral, her family…