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Archive image of a harvester in the Extremaduran countryside. / TODAYThe European Commission offers Member States the possibility of granting a single payment to farmers and agri-food companies most affected by the increase in the prices of inputs under the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development The European Commission offers Member States the possibility of granting a single payment to farmers and agri-food companies most affected by the increase in the prices of inputs charged to the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), as an exceptional measure to guarantee the food security despite market disturbances. Farmers will be eligible for aid of up to 15,000 euros and SMEs to a payment of up to 100,000 euros, and in any case disbursed before October 15, 2023,...

Adam Tooze: nuclear escalation risk not priced inLarry ElliottGeopolitical rivalries are also dominating attentions.Professor Adam Tooze of Columbia University in NYC said he was worried about China, because there didn't seem to be an “off ramp” from Beijing's zero lockdown policy.Tooze, though, is even more concerned about the Cold War turning hot, as the Russia-Ukraine war continues.“The nuclear escalation risk has not been priced in” Tooze tells us, as I have considered what Vladimir Putin might do next.Politicians in the US, he said, were aiming to deprive Russia of the ability to pursue independent military action, something that it hadn't done in the years between the end of the Second World War and the collapse of communism. "This doesn't feel like the Cold War."Tooze said he was...

The first Elizabeth line trains to carry passengers through the new tunnels under London departed on time on Tuesday morning, marking the start of an era of greater speed, space and comfort – “fit for a Queen, and Londoners”, the mayor, Sadiq Khan , said.Hundreds of people braved the rain to queue outside for the first train from Paddington through central London on the line originally known as Crossrail – finally ready for service a week before the platinum jubilee celebrations for the Queen.Crowds head down the escalator at Paddington as the Elizabeth line opened this morning. Photograph: Jill Mead/The GuardianAndy Byford, commissioner at Transport for London, and London Major Sadiq Khan disembark the first Elizabeth line train to carry passengers at Farringdon station. Photograph: Ki...

Although the dawn of the 20th century was a time of war, pandemic and social upheaval, it also brought with it an undeniable sense of hope and opportunity that was central to the modernist art that was flourishing at the time. Visionary new aesthetics were being unleashed on to the world, and artists truly believed in the revolutionary potential of their work. It is this unrivaled possibility, openness and optimism that the Whitney Museum's new exhibit of modernist art, At the Dawn of a New Age, seeks to channel for museum-goers.“There's this sense of ebullience that registers in the work,” said the scholar and longtime Whitney curator Barbara Haskell, who organized this show. “It seemed that it would be fitting to showcase this work at a time when we're dealing with the dystopia of ...

This is not taxed. In many ways to break out the violins for Mark Lawrenson would really be to miss the true essence of the man. You may even have missed his retirement from him last week amid the opera of season-ending farewells. Divock Origi gets a guard of honor at Anfield. Mike Dean gets a 1,500-word valedictory feature in the Athletic. Lawrenson, by contrast, simply slipped away with a droop of the shoulders and very possibly a wry quip about not letting the door hit him on the way out.Which does feel a little strange, even when you take into account the fact that Lawrenson has now been in gentle recession from our screens for some time now. There was still the odd radio gig, semi-regular appearances on Football Focus, the weekly prediction column for the BBC Sport website. ...

AAt 21, the singer Jean Carne had uprooted her life in Atlanta, Georgia, to elope to Hollywood with jazz pianist Doug Carn. It was 1969, and like so many American kids of the flower-power years, Carne was moving west to try her luck in the world of entertainment.While most of her generation would have struck out, Carne found herself living in an apartment block with members of a new funk collective from Chicago. These vegetarian men, who expounded on the benefits of clean living and astrology called themselves Earth, Wind & Fire. Doug and Jean soon hit it off with the band, recording backing vocals and keys on their first two albums, and even adopting their vegetarianism. The group went on to sell more than 90m records, becoming one of the best-selling pop acts of all time.In the en...

Updated Tuesday, May 24, 2022 - 08:34The Catalan could spend up to 20 years in a US prisonAlejandro Cao de Bens, special delegate of the North Korean Government in 2016.USA The New York prosecutor accuses the Spaniard Cao de Bens and a Briton for helping North Korea to evade sanctions The FBI has issued this Monday a search and arrest warrant against the Catalan Alejandro Cao de Bens, whom it accuses of conspiring together with a US citizen to help North Korea to evade some of the economic sanctions imposed by the US, for which could spend up to 20 years in an American prison.Cao de Bens, founder of the organization friends of korea and defender of the Kim Jong-un regime, would have recruited a "cryptocurrency expert" to provide services to the North Korean government during a conferenc...