EU’s industrial base in fight for survival against Chinese threat Belgian citric acid plant a test case for bloc’s ability to compete Financial Times UK 22 Jul 2026 PETER FOSTER JOE LEAHY In the Flemish market town of Tienen in Belgium, Citribel’s fermentation vats have produced citric acid for Europe’s food, pharmaceutical and cleaning industries since 1929. Nearly 8,000km away in China’s eastern province of Shandong, a cluster of newer producers has helped turn the same commodity into a test of whether Europe can still defend its basic industrial base. Built with Belgian knowhow and Italian refinery expertise nearly a century ago, Citribel stands as a testament to European industrial ingenuit But chief executive Joris Merckx says it faces an existential threat from subsidised Chinese competition that has driven prices below levels European plants can sustain long term. “It is a matter of our survival. We innovate on side-products, but we have been making losses for the ...
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We must get Tehran’s thugs off our streets Banning the IRGC is a first step but now its poisonous influence has to be quickly rooted out Roger Boyes @rogerboyes In 2018 a Russian hit squad attempted to poison a defector, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter in Salisbury with the nerve agent novichok. The mission was quickly identified as an operation by the GRU, Russian military intelligence, and the response was laudably quick. Theresa May gave the Kremlin 24 hours to explain whether this was a direct hostile act against Britain or a sign that Russia had lost control of its chemical weapons stocks. When there was no reply, Britain expelled 23 Russian diplomats, the US threw out 60 from the embassy in Washington and EU and Nato countries expelled dozens more. There was a crackdown on illicit Russian financial channels. Formal condemnations were issued at the G7 and the UN security council. Flash forward to 2026. Now it is Iran that has been linked to repeated assassination and kidnap...
Who will win the new war of mercantilists? China’s high degree of self-suff i ciency reduces its vul ner ab il ity to coer cion by oth ers Financial Times Europe22 Jul 2026Mar tin Wolf mar tin.wolf@ft.com We are liv ing in a mer cant il ist era. By this I mean one in which the con cerns of poli -cy makers are as much those of secur ity as of prosper ity. This, as I argued in “Thedan ger ous tri umph of neo-mer cant il ism”, threatens both the sta bil ity of the worldeco nomy and rela tions among great powers. China is also bet ter suited to mer cant -il ism than the US and EU. Mer cant il ists seek power and secur ity or, in other words, the abil ity to bully oth ersand res ist being bul lied by them, in turn. How might one meas ure these cap ab il it -ies? The obvi ous approach is to assess eco nomic size, self-suffi ciency and mono polypower. Yet, as the late Henry Kis singer wisely argued, “no nation can achieve abso -lute secur ity. Abso lute secur ity for one nation means...
Mamdani - you are a piece of Islamic FILTH! You are SCUM! Mamdani Concedes He Can’t Arrest Netanyahu in New York City Save Translate 2:16 Takeaways by Bloomberg AI New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani said his city doesn’t have the ability to arrest Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In a video posted to Instagram — with a caption that read: “Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal” — Mamdani said it’s clear the Israeli prime minister belongs before a court of law. Yet in that video, he also conceded that the city can’t be the one to detain him. “My administration has reviewed every avenue available under applicable law to determine whether New York City could execute the International Criminal Court’s arrest warrant if Benjamin Netanyahu came here,” Mamdani said. “It is clear that we do not have the independent legal authority to enforce this warrant,” he said, adding that the US federal government should do so instead. President Donald Trump made it clear earlier this week that wo...
Vor der Wahl: Ist Putins Regime in Schwierigkeiten? Wahlen in Russland : Ein Ende von Putins Regime ist nicht absehbar Ein Kommentar von Reinhard Veser 20.07.2026, 10:03 Lesezeit: 3 Min. Viele Russen sind unzufrieden mit dem Krieg, langen Schlangen vor den Tankstellen und Internetblockaden. Trotzdem verliert Putin nicht die Kontrolle. In zwei Monaten findet in Russland eine Parlamentswahl statt. Alles wird sein wie immer: Gegner des Kremls werden nicht zugelassen, die ungefähren Stimmanteile der Machtpartei Einiges Russland und der loyalen Scheinopposition werden in der Präsidialadministration festgelegt, die örtlichen Behörden müssen das gewünschte Ergebnis liefern. Diesmal sind nur die Umstände andere als bei vorherigen Wahlen: Der Krieg gegen die Ukraine erreicht den Alltag der Russen. Die Normalität, die ihnen das Regime zu garantieren versucht, erweist sich als brüchig. Fast jede Nacht greifen ukrainische Drohnen Ziele tief im Inneren Russlands an. Ihre Schläge gegen ...
“They’ve never done nothing wrong," says their scumbag illiterate lawyer: that means that they have done something wrong, you moron! Open accessibility guide Skip to sections navigation Skip to content Skip to footer Our network Log in Expand navigation menu Search Advertisement World North America Crime ‘This feels political’: Tate brothers to fight extradition to UK on rape, sex trafficking charges David Fischer Updated July 21, 2026 — 6:32am , first published 4:15am Save Share A A A Add us as a preferred source on Google Listen to this article 4 min Miami: Social media influencers Andrew and Tristan Tate will fight extradition to the United Kingdom where the brothers are accused of rape and sex trafficking, their lawyer said, suggesting their arrest in Miami was politically motivated without explaining why. The Tates appeared in federal court Monday (US time) for the first time since their arrest on Saturday (Sunday AEST) and are being held in federal detention. In the comi...