Pierre Briançon
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Columnist, Reuters Breakingviews, Berlin.
The nuclear physicist excuse
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Bill Gates admits affairs with Russians but denies ‘illicit’ behaviour
The billionaire told staff that he had trysts with two women and apologised for his links to the paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein
https://www.thetimes.com/article/80388bc7-bf6a-48dc-b936-110cdee48751?shareToken=8ed9632341be1086797cf6470b7328d1
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Christine Lagarde receives €140,000 from BIS despite payment ban for ECB staff -
@olafstorbeck.ft.com
here:
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Christine Lagarde receives €140,000 from BIS despite payment ban for ECB staff
Employees are not allowed to accept money from third parties for work related to the central bank
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/f5062844-e921-4488-bceb-2652854ff83b
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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor post-arrest picture hung in the Louvre
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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor post-arrest picture hung in the Louvre
Everyone Hates Elon, a protest group, placed He’s Sweating Now — taken after King’s brother spent 11 hours in custody — in the Paris museum
https://www.thetimes.com/article/9cb8c158-a4ba-4ec0-96aa-24d2f68d76ad?shareToken=26a9a7783555e0beee99e428682c4606
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Reuters Breakingviews
10 days ago
Moscow’s war funding sows seeds of long-term slump
www.breakingviews.com/columns/cons...
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Moscow’s war funding sows seeds of long-term slump
Russia is trying to sell $35 bln of seized assets to plug its fiscal deficit as its budget is gasping for air. It can still finance the Ukraine war, but the state’s tighter control of a slowing econom...
https://www.breakingviews.com/columns/considered-view/moscows-war-funding-sows-seeds-long-term-slump-2026-02-19/
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Reuters Breakingviews
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‘Buy European’ push will require delicate handling
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‘Buy European’ push will require delicate handling
Brussels may soon propose boosting European industry by forcing governments to favour EU content. Electric cars may have to include 70% local parts to get subsidies, for example. It’s a welcome move, ...
https://www.breakingviews.com/columns/considered-view/buy-european-push-will-require-delicate-handling-2026-02-20/
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Et des moins jeunes, souvent, aussi
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« Bah alors, tu veux pas nous voir ? » : quand la pause déjeuner avec les collègues hante les jeunes salariés
Longtemps pilier de la sociabilité au travail, le déjeuner entre collègues est désormais vécu par une partie de la génération Z comme une injonction sociale parfois très anxiogène. Certains n’hésitent...
https://www.lemonde.fr/campus/article/2026/02/20/bah-alors-tu-veux-pas-nous-voir-quand-la-pause-dejeuner-avec-les-collegues-hante-les-jeunes-salaries_6667504_4401467.html
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Toujours utile
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Pierre Desproges : A quoi reconnaître un con ? | Archive INA
YouTube video by Ina Pierre Desproges. Étonnant, non ?
https://youtu.be/MQng78lYrQU?si=vNxciV_oJ9Ha-eN6
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Man in his sixties from Norfolk arrested on allegations of gross misconduct
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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor arrested on suspicion of misconduct in public office - live updates
It comes after Thames Valley Police said they were assessing a complaint over the alleged sharing of confidential material by the former prince with Jeffrey Epstein.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c70kjr9wjw0t
10 days ago
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Reuters Breakingviews
11 days ago
Early Lagarde exit is key to smooth ECB transition -
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Early Lagarde exit is key to smooth ECB transition
The central bank’s boss may leave before the end of her eight-year term, the FT says. Depriving French President Emmanuel Macron’s successor of a say in picking Christine Lagarde’s replacement is risk...
https://www.breakingviews.com/columns/considered-view/early-lagarde-exit-is-key-smooth-ecb-transition-2026-02-18/
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The Hungarian election on April 12 will be an acid test for the anti-EU-within-EU coalition - Breakingviews:
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Breakingviews - Hungarian vote is acid test for anti-EU coalition
The central European country produces just 1.2% of the bloc’s GDP. However, an April election threatens Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s 16-year rule as well as the influence of Vladimir Putin and Donald...
https://www.reuters.com/commentary/breakingviews/hungarian-vote-is-acid-test-anti-eu-coalition-2026-02-18/
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Even the hospitals aren’t safe in Iran
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Even the Hospitals Aren’t Safe in Iran
As the regime imposes a forced forgetting of the massacres in January, it has begun targeting not only wounded protesters but medical workers, who have borne witness to some of the worst atrocities.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/cora-engelbrecht-lede-iran-waits-for-war
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What Is Claude? Anthropic Doesn’t Know, Either
Gideon Lewis-Kraus goes inside the A.I. research company.
https://open.substack.com/pub/newyorker/p/what-is-claude-anthropic-doesnt-know?r=dvjte&utm_medium=ios
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Another horror story
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Irish man with valid US work permit held in ICE detention for five months
Seamus Culleton, who has lived in US for two decades, faces deportation after being arrested on way home from work
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/09/irish-man-seamus-culleton-ice-detention
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Jimmy Lai’s 20-year sentence follows Beijing’s playbook on dissent
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/w...
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Jimmy Lai’s 20-Year Sentence Follows Beijing’s Playbook on Dissent
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/world/asia/jimmy-lai-sentence-analysis.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Dude who advised resigns, and dude who decided stays on?
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How Jeff Bezos (and Will Lewis) brought the Washington Post down
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How Jeff Bezos Brought Down the Washington Post
The Amazon founder bought the paper to save it. Instead, with a mass layoff, he’s forced it into severe decline.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-communications/how-jeff-bezos-brought-down-the-washington-post?utm_campaign=partnerpromo&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
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Security "guarantees" for Ukraine (read in FT): If the Russians attack, let's give them a three-day headstart.
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Betting markets, what's not to love? ("leading contender...")
www.ft.com/content/a9ba...
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BlackRock’s Rick Rieder surges ahead in race to chair Federal Reserve
Donald Trump has said he plans to name his nominee to run the US central bank ‘in the not too distant future’
https://www.ft.com/content/a9bad7cb-ff5f-41ca-abcd-be93e7e20cd1
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It's tough to admit you've become a provincial market place
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The battle for Kupiansk: inside Ukraine’s victory against the odds
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The Russian refinery Berlin cannot afford to lose
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The Russian refinery Berlin cannot afford to lose
Looming US sanctions risk cutting fuel supplies to German capital, prompting government to review Rosneft expropriation
https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/dd7dc95c-be2a-4220-959b-584784456cfd
about 1 month ago
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Trump may have Alzheimer’s, says niece
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about 1 month ago
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(He said brain-dead, actually, my bad...)
add a skeleton here at some point
about 1 month ago
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Jan-Werner Mueller
about 1 month ago
Germany's paper of record (not exactly a paragon of progressiveness) comes out in favor of boycotting the World Cup.
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Fußball-WM 2026: Sollte der DFB über einen Boykott nachdenken?
Die Fußballwelt als Staffage: An Donald Trumps Politik wird auch die Weltmeisterschaft nichts ändern. Die Positionierung des DFB scheint klar.
https://www.faz.net/aktuell/sport/fussball/fussball-wm-2026-sollte-der-dfb-ueber-einen-boykott-nachdenken-110825149.html
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Libération
about 2 months ago
«Mr. Nobody Against Poutine» : Pavel Talankin, un dissident contre les salades russes Chargé par le Kremlin de documenter la bonne application de la propagande dans l’école où il travaille, le vidéaste, contempteur de Poutine, en a tiré un film clandestin édifiant sur le lavage de cerveau
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«Mr. Nobody Against Poutine» : Pavel Talankin, un dissident contre les salades russes
Chargé par le Kremlin de documenter la bonne application de la propagande dans l’école où il travaille, le vidéaste, contempteur de Poutine, en a tiré un film clandestin édifiant sur le lavage de cerveau des nouvelles générations.
https://www.liberation.fr/culture/cinema/mr-nobody-against-poutine-pavel-talankin-contre-les-salades-russes-20260105_TTNRA22VFBGIBKFT7CWZHUGFUU/?utm_medium=Social&at_medium=Social%20Media&at_campaign=Bluesky&utm_source=Bluesky&at_platform=Bluesky#Echobox=1767646801
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Pierre Briançon
The Moscow Times
about 2 months ago
Pavel Talankin witnessed Russia’s efforts to indoctrinate children with the state’s ideology while working at a school in the Chelyabinsk region. The footage he filmed became "Mr. Nobody Against Putin," which was shortlisted for the Academy Awards last month.
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‘Mr. Nobody Against Putin’: A Schoolteacher’s Stand Against Russia’s Child Indoctrination - The Moscow Times
Pavel Talankin witnessed Russia’s efforts to indoctrinate children with the state’s ideology while working as a school event coordinator in Karabash, a copper-smelting hub in Russia’s Chelyabinsk regi...
https://www.themoscowtimes.com/2025/02/07/mr-nobody-against-putin-a-schoolteachers-stand-against-russias-child-indoctrination-a87869
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NATO dude here painstakingly demonstrating how right Macron was when he talked about "brainless NATO."
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about 1 month ago
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Britain wants to save its red squirrels, and The Economist is on it.
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about 1 month ago
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“I was a surgeon in Iran…”
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Iran protest doctor: ‘In one street, I saw blood pooled in a gutter with a trail stretching several metres’ | Anonymous
I’ve worked as a surgeon in disaster zones. Nothing compares to the nightmare I saw in Iran’s hospitals when the state started shooting protesters
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jan/25/iran-protest-doctor-first-hand-account-shooting-of-protestors
about 1 month ago
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Pierre Briançon
Reuters Breakingviews
about 1 month ago
What Ukraine’s resilient banks can teach Zelenskiy
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What Ukraine’s resilient banks can teach Zelenskiy
Lenders in the war-torn country have shrunk their bad loans from 37% to 24% of their portfolios in the last two years. Other sectors are shaken by corruption scandals, but the financial industry remai...
https://www.breakingviews.com/columns/big-view/what-ukraines-resilient-banks-can-teach-zelenskiy-2026-01-23/
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What Ukraine’s resilient banks could teach Zelenskiy
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Breakingviews - What Ukraine’s resilient banks can teach Zelenskiy
Lenders in the war-torn country have shrunk their bad loans from 37% to 24% of their portfolios in the last two years. Other sectors are shaken by corruption scandals, but the financial industry remai...
https://www.reuters.com/commentary/breakingviews/what-ukraines-resilient-banks-can-teach-zelenskiy-2026-01-23/
about 1 month ago
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The Board of Peace farce marks the day when the whole Davos edifice should collapse under a long-deserved tsunami of ridicule. (Don't worry, it won't.)
about 1 month ago
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Read Steve Scherer on his journey "from foreign correspondent to Uber driver in Trump's America":
stevescherer.substack.com/p/my-journey...
about 1 month ago
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Always trust irreplaceable NYTimes to dig deeper on the most important issues of the day
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/w...
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Why Was Macron Wearing Sunglasses at Davos?
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/world/europe/macron-sunglasses-davos.html
about 1 month ago
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We live in the age of neo-royalist cliques - a Cambridge University paper
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Further Back to the Future: Neo-Royalism, the Trump Administration, and the Emerging International System | International Organization | Cambridge Core
Further Back to the Future: Neo-Royalism, the Trump Administration, and the Emerging International System - Volume 79 Issue S1
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/international-organization/article/further-back-to-the-future-neoroyalism-the-trump-administration-and-the-emerging-international-system/ABB12906CA345BBCA5049B544363D391?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email
about 1 month ago
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Governor Tim Walz
about 1 month ago
Federal agents are pulling over off duty cops based on the color of their skin. This is not a serious operation to enforce immigration law. It’s a performative show of force and it’s gotten way out of hand.
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Canadian military models response to hypothetical American invasion
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Military models Canadian response to hypothetical American invasion
Armed Forces envision insurgency tactics like those used by Afghan mujahedeen, sources say. But officials and experts stress a U.S. operation is unlikely, and the scenarios are conceptual
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/politics/article-military-models-canadian-response-to-hypothetical-american-invasion/
about 1 month ago
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It's time for Macron to reclaim the Louisiana Purchase. My impeccable arguments:
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When Trump talks about "peace" just remember the unsurpassed Mel Brooks
www.youtube.com/watch?v=64DC...
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To Be or Not To Be - A Little Piece of Poland
YouTube video by omgponies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64DCO2sI7fI
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"Protectionist tariffs do not work. Always they are sold as short-term solutions. But inevitably, a quick-fix leads to long-term addiction..." Ronald Reagan in Davos, 1982.
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about 1 month ago
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Pierre Briançon
Nicolai von Ondarza
about 1 month ago
Reading through the legal act of the EU's Anti-Coercion Instrument - and its definition on "coercion" reads like it was written for Trump's action: A third country threatening to apply trade measures (here tariffs) interfering in the sovereign choices of an EU member states (Denmark on Greenland).
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Where do they get these guys? Really?
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about 1 month ago
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In NYTimes: How We Photographed an ICE Confrontation in Minneapolis
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Video: How We Photographed an ICE Confrontation in Minneapolis
Our visual journalists David Guttenfelder and Todd Heisler describe a dramatic incident in which federal agents dragged a woman out of her car in Minneapolis near where Renee Nicole Good had been kill...
https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000010643550/how-we-photographed-an-ice-confrontation-in-minneapolis.html?smid=url-share&smid=nytcore-ios-share
about 1 month ago
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Germany, the country where masked perpetrators of a multi-million euros bank heist pay the parking fee for their getaway vehicle.
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Forty hours and thousands of boxes ransacked: inside Germany’s latest bank heist
Criminals escaped with cash, gold and valuables worth tens of millions of euros from thousands of customers
https://www.ft.com/content/b94c35ec-a743-44c2-9847-79145a15c754
about 2 months ago
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Pierre Briançon
Reuters Breakingviews
about 2 months ago
US Greenland threat calls for united EU action
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US Greenland threat calls for united EU action
European leaders’ muted response to Donald Trump’s raid on Venezuela doesn’t augur well should the US president seize Denmark’s autonomous territory. They should firmly stand by Copenhagen. Sending tr...
https://www.breakingviews.com/columns/breaking-view/us-greenland-threat-calls-united-eu-action-2026-01-06/
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California billionaire says California billionaire tax is a really bad idea
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California’s billionaire tax plan will backfire
Over the past 50 years the state has become overly reliant on a few deep pockets that it cannot afford to lose
https://www.ft.com/content/122f71b9-bf0f-47c3-a46d-827740d4ce73
about 2 months ago
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Europeans should send troops to Greenland - @ReutersBreakingviews here:
www.breakingviews.com/columns/brea...
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US Greenland threat calls for united EU action
European leaders’ muted response to Donald Trump’s raid on Venezuela doesn’t augur well should the US president seize Denmark’s autonomous territory. They should firmly stand by Copenhagen. Sending tr...
https://www.breakingviews.com/columns/breaking-view/us-greenland-threat-calls-united-eu-action-2026-01-06/
about 2 months ago
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Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live onstage during German hacker conference
techcrunch.com/2026/01/05/h...
about 2 months ago
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Introducing ‘Predictions 2026’, a new e-book from Breakingviews laying out the deals, companies, people and market moves that will shape the year ahead. Access the book 👉
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As the world enters 2026, Breakingviews columnists map out how powerful forces of macroeconomic stimulus, exuberance over artificial intelligence and corporate dealmaking could interact with tensions between great powers, financial gravity and political dysfunction in the coming 12 months.
https://reut.rs/3YDKKwu
about 2 months ago
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Pierre Briançon
Olaf Storbeck
about 2 months ago
European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde’s full pay is more than 50 per cent higher than her disclosed salary, according to a Financial Times analysis.
www.ft.com/content/c7cd...
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Christine Lagarde’s pay is 50% higher than disclosed by ECB
Europe’s top central banker earns almost four times more than Fed chair Jay Powell, FT analysis shows
https://www.ft.com/content/c7cd22f0-efe5-40de-a448-fa9075926a6a?shareType=nongift
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