RICHMOND, Va. (AP)– Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam revealed Tuesday that he will propose making Juneteenth– a day that honors completion of slavery in the U.S.– an official holiday in a state that was as soon as home to the capital of the Confederacy. Juneteenth, which is likewise called Emancipation Day and Liberty Day, is commemorated […]

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The European Commission desires its own anti-fraud data-mining tool made mandatory for all EU states to punish financial criminal offenses. “It is a data collection, a data-mining tool which allows us to identify risks and more importantly also allows us to detect conflicts of interests,” Joost Korte, a senior European Commission official informed MEPs on […]

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German chancellor Angela Merkel and French president Emmanuel Macron proposed on Monday (18 May) a recovery fund of EUR500 bn to support the sectors and areas in the EU most impacted by the coronavirus crisis. The effort recommends providing the European Commission the authority to obtain money on financial markets in the European Union’s name […]

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