The British consumer goods giant Unilever and the Dutch brewer Heineken have both sold their Russian subsidiaries to a company owned by the industrialist and Kremlin ally Alexei Sagal.
In July, Reckitt, which is listed on the London Stock Exchange, agreed to sell part of its Russian business to Sagal after being hit by a new round of EU sanctions. Ferrero, on the other hand, has remained in Russia.
What is worrying is not that cereal production is falling (-2 per cent), but rather that – in August – there was a sharp rise in prices: the FAO global food price index rose to 133.3 points, an increase of 1.9 per cent in just one month and 2.5 per cent compared with a year ago
Ukraine’s air defences are unable to stop ballistic missile attacks, having run out of interceptors for the US-manufactured Patriot launch batteries – the only technology capable of shooting them down
‘Trump is a blessing for Putin’
‘Trump is a blessing for Putin’
What do these cuts mean? A major strategic error, which harms the United States first and foremost, and the world in general. The USAID cuts were a point of friction between Pope Francis and Donald Trump’s government
Mahamat Idriss Déby unilaterally terminated the military cooperation agreements with France in November 2024, deeming them “obsolete” and “outdated” – leading, in January, to the withdrawal of a thousand soldiers from the last stronghold of the anti-jihadist operation ‘Barkhane’, which had been halted at the end of November 2022: the country chose to align itself with Russia rather than remain under French influence
The world’s largest meat producer is called JBS; it is Brazilian and is completely unreliable. The rules governing the import of animal proteins from Brazil should be carefully reassessed
A major investment by the German Schwarz Group, owner of the Lidl discount supermarket chain, as part of a drive by European countries to reduce their reliance on foreign providers of cloud and artificial intelligence services
It would be a grave mistake to treat these farcical displays of parallel diplomacy and these strategies of influence, blessed by Heaven and the cardinals, as a ridiculous and irrelevant spectacle. It is ridiculous, but it is highly relevant
Donald Trump could have dealt the final blow in the war against Vladimir Putin’s Russia and brought it down. All the conditions were in place, but he decided instead to remain ‘Our man in Washington’: Trump in the hands of the Russians
The findings of the New York Times investigation into Russia’s ambitions regarding Moldova come as no surprise; they are the logical consequence of what has already happened. What is striking is the scale of the affair: at least 150,000 Moldovans were involved in this subversive plot, out of a population of just over 2.3 million
As well as toilet paper, there are many other food and non-food products: the two economies are deeply intertwined. And everyone, on both sides of the two borders, is expecting inflation to rise
