Margarita Stancati
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The Uncertain Road Ahead for Chip Makers
She gets along with Trump because they share the same kind of conservative, anti-woke worldview. And they've met each other and Trump likes her. So that already in itself sets her apart from some of her other European colleagues. Trump went as far as describing her a fantastic woman. She's also friends with Elon Musk, who has helped broker this relationship.
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The Uncertain Road Ahead for Chip Makers
Among the things that Maloney is expected to offer when she does meet Trump is a promise that Italy is going to increase its defense spending to 2% of its budget. That's something that Trump has repeatedly asked for and that she is going to deliver. The question is whether she will be able to translate this good relationship into a breakthrough on tariffs and more broadly on
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The Uncertain Road Ahead for Chip Makers
on the relationship between the US and Europe, which has been very rocky in recent months. Meloni is likely going to make the case for the European Union's so-called zero for zero tariff deal, offering to bring down tariffs on imported American goods to zero in exchange for the same for European goods in America. But Trump has made it very clear that that will not be enough for him.
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Francis, Pope of Firsts, Dies at 88
Now, he nearly died twice when he was in hospital with a severe respiratory illness. His health had improved, but he was still looking very, very frail. And he was still receiving medical treatment and was not well enough, for example, to lead the traditional Easter Sunday Mass yesterday. That is also when we last saw him.
WSJ What’s News
Francis, Pope of Firsts, Dies at 88
Although he couldn't lead the Mass himself, he appeared on the balcony at St. Peter's Square, blessed the crowd and wished everybody a happy Easter. He also came down into the square on his Popemobile, waving at the crowd, and that's the last time we saw him in public.
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Francis, Pope of Firsts, Dies at 88
So after the Pope dies, there will be a process called the Conclave, which will be held in the Vatican, the Sistine Chapel. And that's where all the cardinals under the age of 80 select a new pope. And that's a process that can take a long time. It will take some time for the Catholic faithful to process the news of Pope Francis. He was a very beloved pope across the world.
WSJ What’s News
Francis, Pope of Firsts, Dies at 88
So there will be a few days of mourning. And there's a lot of pilgrims in Rome right now. It's currently the Jubilee. So I think we'll see large crowds gathering in St. Peter's Square tomorrow. as people kind of process this news.
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Francis, Pope of Firsts, Dies at 88
Absolutely. Pope Francis was the first Latin American pope, and he made a point of always speaking up for the poor, the vulnerable, the migrants, and weighed in on current affairs the whole time. Just yesterday in his Easter speech, which was read out by an aide, he spoke about the need to end wars in Ukraine, in Gaza, in Sudan and elsewhere.
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Francis, Pope of Firsts, Dies at 88
So his message was always against wars and he spoke up in favor of the poor and migrants. And that's something that actually caused some tensions with the Trump administration. He had been very critical of the Trump administration's anti-immigration policy and specifically of the kind of large scale deportations. And that's something he also mentioned in his speech yesterday.
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Francis, Pope of Firsts, Dies at 88
He spoke in defense of migrants and criticized the contempt that is often directed towards them.
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Francis, Pope of Firsts, Dies at 88
Every pontiff makes his own mark on the papacy. But for sure, the last few popes have been quite active in current affairs. So I don't think that's going to change. Pope Francis was seen as a relatively progressive pope. He was relatively liberal for a pope. And there are currents that have opposed this from their point of view, the success of liberalism.
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Francis, Pope of Firsts, Dies at 88
It's too early to say who's going to follow Pope Francis. But he has appointed most of the cardinals who will then have to decide who will follow him. So his legacy is not going to die with him.
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Francis, Pope of Firsts, Dies at 88
So the Vatican at around 10 a.m. local time announced that Pope Francis had died. They released a very short note in which they just said that the Pope had died at 7.35 this morning in Rome in his apartment in the Vatican. The Pope had been very sick recently. He had been hospitalized for about a month. and returned home in mid-March.
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Trump Administration Backs Away From White-Collar Criminal Enforcement
No one really thought of UTELSAT as a real alternative to Starlink in Ukraine until earlier this year. And geopolitics has everything to do with it. So we've seen this deterioration in the transatlantic alliance under President Trump, and that has convinced European leaders that they need to take quick action to end their dependence on America for their defense.
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Trump Administration Backs Away From White-Collar Criminal Enforcement
And one of the first vulnerabilities they're moving to address is this big reliance on America's dominance in space. And we can literally pinpoint the moments that Eutelsat suddenly became the focus of attention and became one of the most important companies in Europe, really. And it's when this relationship, this transatlantic relationship, started deteriorating. So when Vice President J.D.
WSJ What’s News
Trump Administration Backs Away From White-Collar Criminal Enforcement
Vance delivered this kind of fiery speech at the Munich Security Conference, that is when Eutelsat's CEO Eva Bernanke first started receiving inquiries from European officials asking if Eutelsat was ready to step into Ukraine.