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French billionaire Vincent Bolloré is defiant as authors quit top publisher.

Conservative billionaire Bolloré, the owner of the Hachette group, pledged on Sunday to find new authors to replace the some 170 who have left the prestigious subsidiary Grasset in protest at alleged political interference.

French President Macron has weighed in on the affair, which has shaken France’s cultural scene.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260419-french-billionaire-vincent-bollore-is-defiant-as-authors-quit-top-publisher?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#VincentBollore #Grasset #Publishing #Books #France

French billionaire Vincent Bolloré is defiant as authors quit top publisher.

Conservative billionaire Bolloré, the owner of the Hachette group, pledged on Sunday to find new authors to replace the some 170 who have left the prestigious subsidiary Grasset in protest …

Lennard van Otterloo 1d ago

MediaFaro Magazine 1d ago

Emma Morano’s live spanned three centuries.

Born in 1899 in Civiasco, Kingdom of Italy, Emma Martina Luigia Morano died in 2017 at the age of 117, in Verbania, Italian Republic.

She survived an abusive marriage, the loss of her only son, two World Wars and 90 Italian governments.

#FactOfTheDay

Lennard van Otterloo 1d ago

European Commission 1d ago

75 years ago, the path to the European Union began. 🇪🇺

On 18 April 1951, the Treaty of Paris was signed, establishing the European Coal and Steel Community.

🇧🇪🇫🇷🇮🇹🇩🇪🇳🇱🇱🇺 joined forces to build a shared market, choosing cooperation over conflict.

Born from the desire for peace and a united Europe after WWII, this treaty laid the foundation for the Union we know today.

Lennard van Otterloo 1d ago

De Groene Amsterdammer 1d ago

Geregeld leidde de kunst van Tracey Emin, door de getoonde intimiteit, tot irritaties en geschamper. Maar ze liet zich niet uit het veld slaan. Veertig jaar werk is nu te zien in Tate Modern in Londen. https://www.groene.nl/artikel/traceyland?utm_campaign=website&utm_medium=owned_social&utm_source=mastodon

Tracey Emin verwerkt haar persoonlijkste intimiteiten in haar kunst. Wie dat niet trekt, moet niet naar Tate Modern gaan

De Groene Amsterdammer

Lennard van Otterloo 1d ago

FD Nieuws 1d ago

Heinen (Financiën) wil nieuw ‘toegangskaartje’ voor VK bij EU regelen

Minister van Financiën Eelco Heinen ziet een sleutelrol voor zichzelf en zijn ambtgenoten om Europa een leidende rol in de wereld te laten spelen. ‘Wij zijn de laatste generatie die dit kunnen fixen.’

https://fd.nl/economie/1593905/heinen-financien-wil-nieuw-toegangskaartje-voor-vk-bij-eu-regelen #nieuws #FD #FinancieeleDagblad

Heinen (Financiën) wil nieuw ‘toegangskaartje’ voor VK bij EU regelen

FD.nl

Lennard van Otterloo 1d ago

Incident Creator ❎1d ago

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Winderful 1d ago

While you were sleeping, #windEnergy reached 34% of the National Grid's electricity demand. https://winderful.uk

Lennard van Otterloo 1d ago

Veronica Gaffey 2d ago

Large-scale use of the EU cloud is a prerequisite for improving the EU’s digital sovereignty.

The Commission leads by example – this April, we awarded Sovereign Cloud call for tenders, allowing the EU institutions, bodies, offices and agencies to procure sovereign cloud services for up to EUR 180 million over a period of 6 years. ☁️

This call for tenders sets a new benchmark for what ‘sovereign’ means in practice for cloud services.

Read more 👉 https://link.europa.eu/NTrVhv

Lennard van Otterloo 2d ago

Annette Mullaney 2d ago

Complaining about tax on pied-à-terres that tops out at 4% is such broke behavior 🙄

Lennard van Otterloo 2d ago

MediaFaro Analysis 2d ago

More than half of Britons support rejoining the EU 10 years on from the Brexit vote.

Support for rejoining the EU rather than simply rejoining the single market is growing among British voters, with more than 80% of Labour, Liberal Democrat and Green party supporters favouring this option, according to research mapping voter attitudes 10 years after the Brexit referendum.

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#Brexit #UK #Politics #EU #Europe #Trade #SingleMarket

More than half of Britons support rejoining the EU 10 years on from the Brexit vote.

Support for rejoining the EU rather than simply rejoining the single market is growing among British voters, with more than 80% of Labour, Liberal Democrat and Green party supporters favouring …

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