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Press release - Deal on plans to boost Europe’s Net-Zero technology production

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Wednesday, February 7, 2024
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The law will simplify the permitting process, setting maximum timelines for projects to be authorised depending on their scope and output.

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  • The law will simplify the permitting process, setting maximum timelines for projects to be authorised depending on their scope and output.
  • Sustainability and resilience criteria
    National support schemes aiming to speed up the deployment of technologies among households and consumers (e.g.
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    “This deal is good news for European industry and sets the tune for the next term.
  • Background
    A considerable amount of clean energy technology is needed to support reaching Europe's 2030 and 2050 climate targets.

Press release - Deal on mid-term revision of EU’s long-term budget

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Wednesday, February 7, 2024
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Following talks with EU member states, MEPs reached an agreement on the revision of EU’s long-term budget, addressing unforeseen challenges like Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.Committee on Budgets Source : © European Union, 2024 - EP

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Following talks with EU member states, MEPs reached an agreement on the revision of EU’s long-term budget, addressing unforeseen challenges like Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.Committee on Budgets Source : © European Union, 2024 - EP

Press release - President Iohannis: “We must stand by Ukraine and its people”

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Wednesday, February 7, 2024
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Romanian President Klaus Iohannis underlined to Parliament on Wednesday the importance of EU action founded on unity, solidarity, cohesion and the rule of law.

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  • Romanian President Klaus Iohannis underlined to Parliament on Wednesday the importance of EU action founded on unity, solidarity, cohesion and the rule of law.
  • Continuing support for Ukraine must be among the EU’s key priorities, according to the Romanian President.
  • “We must stand by Ukraine and its people,” he stressed, adding that defending democracy, territorial integrity and sovereignty, as well as the rules-based international order, cannot be subject to any “solidarity fatigue”.
  • Enlargement is an essential part of EU’s strategic answer to the geopolitical developments, he added, and a key investment in lasting peace, stability and democracy.

Article - President Iohannis: “We must stand by Ukraine and its people”

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Wednesday, February 7, 2024
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Romanian President Klaus Iohannis underlined to Parliament the importance of EU action founded on unity, solidarity, cohesion and the rule of law.

Key Points: 
  • Romanian President Klaus Iohannis underlined to Parliament the importance of EU action founded on unity, solidarity, cohesion and the rule of law.
  • Continuing support for Ukraine must be among the EU’s key priorities, according to the Romanian President.
  • “We must stand by Ukraine and its people,” he stressed, adding that defending democracy, territorial integrity and sovereignty, as well as the rules-based international order, cannot be subject to any “solidarity fatigue”.
  • Enlargement is an essential part of EU’s strategic answer to the geopolitical developments, he added, and a key investment in lasting peace, stability and democracy.

Anavex Life Sciences Reports Fiscal 2024 First Quarter Financial Results and Provides Business Update

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Wednesday, February 7, 2024
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NEW YORK, Feb. 07, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Anavex Life Sciences Corp. (“Anavex” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: AVXL), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing differentiated therapeutics for the treatment of neurodegenerative and neurodevelopmental disorders including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, Rett syndrome, schizophrenia and other central nervous system (CNS) diseases, today reported financial results for its fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2023.

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  • The Marketing Authorisation would allow direct market access throughout the European Union for oral blarcamesine for the treatment of Alzheimer’s disease.
  • We intend to further assess the results and discuss with the regulatory authorities next steps.
  • General and administrative expenses for the quarter of $2.6 million compared to $3.3 million for the comparable first quarter of fiscal 2023.
  • Research and development expenses for the fourth quarter of $8.7 million compared to $12.1 million for the comparable first quarter of fiscal 2023.

Brera Holdings Highlights Benefits of Multi-Club Ownership Model for Shareholders

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Tuesday, February 6, 2024
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DUBLIN and MILAN, Feb. 06, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Brera Holdings PLC (“Brera Holdings”, “Brera” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: BREA), which one year ago became the first Italian football team to IPO on Nasdaq, today describes some of the benefits of the multi-club ownership (“MCO”) model.

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  • DUBLIN and MILAN, Feb. 06, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Brera Holdings PLC (“Brera Holdings”, “Brera” or the “Company”) (Nasdaq: BREA), which one year ago became the first Italian football team to IPO on Nasdaq, today describes some of the benefits of the multi-club ownership (“MCO”) model.
  • As the only publicly-listed MCO company in the world today, holding six assets in its professional sports team portfolio, Brera has already begun to diversify its sports holdings.
  • In March 2023, Brera expanded to Africa with the establishment of Brera Tchumene FC, a team then admitted to the Second Division League in Mozambique.
  • Brera believes it’s important for shareholders to understand the benefits of the MCO business model, and felt it’s best to provide some background and history to demonstrate the opportunity.

VITAS® Healthcare Promotes Four Leaders to Executive Team: Coronado, Cosma, De La Rosa, Hamrick

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Tuesday, February 6, 2024
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MIAMI, Feb. 06, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Professional growth continues to transpire at VITAS Healthcare as four tenured leaders ascend to vice president roles.

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  • MIAMI, Feb. 06, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Professional growth continues to transpire at VITAS Healthcare as four tenured leaders ascend to vice president roles.
  • Kathleen Coronado, Anthony Cosma, Mario De La Rosa and Angela Hamrick join the executive management team with more than 50 years of combined experience in hospice and palliative care at the nation’s leading provider.
  • In this new role, effective April 2024, she will provide expanded leadership for multiple VITAS service areas and special projects.
  • Following two decades at VITAS, De La Rosa now leads the Home Medical Equipment (HME) division for the national hospice provider.

Dynacare workers vote for strike action as bargaining for a first collective agreement reaches impasse

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Monday, February 5, 2024
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MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, Feb. 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Lab tech workers at nine Dynacare locations in Ontario, including Hamilton, Burlington, Kitchener, and Niagara Falls, have voted unanimously in favour of strike action as bargaining for a first collective agreement with their employer has reached an impasse over wage rates.

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  • MISSISSAUGA, Ontario, Feb. 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Lab tech workers at nine Dynacare locations in Ontario, including Hamilton, Burlington, Kitchener, and Niagara Falls, have voted unanimously in favour of strike action as bargaining for a first collective agreement with their employer has reached an impasse over wage rates.
  • Despite there being only two classifications for the workers, there are over 35 different wage rates applied to their jobs, and they are all underpaid.
  • “Dynacare is one of the largest providers of lab services in the country and they employ more than 2,400 people across Canada.
  • With the members’ endorsement of strike action, which took place at a vote held January 7, 2024, these workers will soon be in a legal strike position.

Zenith American Solutions Appoints Patrick Horne to EVP, Chief Information Officer

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Monday, February 5, 2024
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TAMPA, Fla., Feb. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Zenith American Solutions, Inc.("Zenith"), the leader in third-party administration services for Taft-Hartley trust funds, is pleased to announce that Patrick Horne has joined Zenith's Executive Leadership Team as the Company's Chief Information Officer.

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  • TAMPA, Fla., Feb. 5, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Zenith American Solutions, Inc.("Zenith"), the leader in third-party administration services for Taft-Hartley trust funds, is pleased to announce that Patrick Horne has joined Zenith's Executive Leadership Team as the Company's Chief Information Officer.
  • Patrick Horne has been an IT professional for over thirty-two years, managing IT operations for publicly traded and privately held companies.
  • Prior to joining Zenith American Solutions, Horne served as the Chief Information Officer at Southeast Medical Group based in Alpharetta, Georgia.
  • Horne said, "I am honored to assume the role of Chief Information Officer at such a reputable company.

Biden is campaigning against the Lost Cause and the ‘poison’ of white supremacy in South Carolina

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Monday, February 5, 2024
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The site of the speech on Jan. 8, 2024, was Charleston, South Carolina’s Mother Emanuel AME Church, where, on a summer evening in 2015, an avowed white supremacist murdered nine Black worshipers, including Rev.

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  • The site of the speech on Jan. 8, 2024, was Charleston, South Carolina’s Mother Emanuel AME Church, where, on a summer evening in 2015, an avowed white supremacist murdered nine Black worshipers, including Rev.
  • At Pinckney’s funeral, then-President Barack Obama sang a heart-felt version of the Christian hymn Amazing Grace.
  • “The word of God was pierced by bullets in hate and rage, propelled by not just gunpowder but by a poison,” Biden said.
  • What I have learned is that Biden’s Mother Emanuel speech should rank with some of the most important speeches in our history.

The original big lie

  • Boldly rejecting the Declaration of Independence as effusive “enthusiasm,” Smith injected white supremacy into public discourse.
  • Smith, who owned several plantations and at least 71 enslaved people, was among more than 1,800 U.S. legislators who enslaved Black people.
  • If you disagreed, vigilante thugs would beat you up or chase you into exile.

‘A house divided against itself cannot stand’

  • The Supreme Court’s infamous 1857 decision in Dred Scott v. Sandford extended Southern racist ideology into the North.
  • He addressed the consequences of slavery on America’s democracy and warned that “a house divided against itself cannot stand.” “This government cannot endure,” he said, “permanently half slave and half free.
  • It will become all one thing, or all the other.
  • The Civil War was supposed to end slavery and the white supremacist ideology that underpinned it.
  • The 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments, known as the Reconstruction amendments, made equality explicit in the Constitution, extending civil and political rights to newly freed African Americans.

Democracies in peril

  • In his State of the Union address on Jan. 6, 1941, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt sounded a new alarm.
  • His “Four Freedoms” speech was an updated version of Lincoln’s and further defined freedom within a democracy.
  • The immediate issue was whether the U.S. should help England and other European allies defend against the fascist regimes of German Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and Italian dictator Benito Mussolini.
  • Biden called out Trump for his “big lie” about the 2020 election that Trump has repeatedly claim was “rigged” against him.


Joseph Patrick Kelly volunteers for the Charleston County (SC) Democratic Party.