How a 150-year-old Zurich fraternity is adapting to the present.
Utonia is not the largest, but perhaps the most Zurich-like of all the Zurich student fraternities: Their caps are blue like the lake, their ribbons white-blue like the coat of arms of the city and the canton of Zurich, and the name is reminiscent of the local mountain.
It seems out of step with time. But closing themselves off to change would be their downfall.
https://www.nzz.ch/english/zurich-utonia-fraternity-modernizes-to-attract-new-members-ld.1747814
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Tata Group has announced plans to build a £4bn flagship battery factory in the UK to supply Jaguar Land Rover from 2026, in a big boost to a domestic car industry that is struggling to adapt to the era of electric vehicles.
UK prime minister Sunak hailed the development that would accelerate the sluggish transition of Britain’s car industry from petrol and diesel cars to electric vehicles.
https://www.ft.com/content/53934b88-942e-40ea-866c-84af805c2faf
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CEE: Labour migration on the rise.
Central and Eastern European countries (CEE) have moved at breakneck speed from developing to developed market status in the 19 years since their EU accession.
This brings serious investment, but also some of the afflictions of Western economies: aging populations, labour shortages, fast-rising wages and the need for labour immigration.
https://www.dw.com/en/labor-migration-on-the-rise-in-poland-hungary/a-66205353
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Spain's anti-trust watchdog announced on Tuesday that it has fined Amazon and Apple a total of €194 million for collusion in the sale of products which "restricted competition", according to a statement by the regulator.
The watchdog found that in 2018 the two US tech giants had agreed to limit the sale of Apple products on Amazon's Spanish websites by third-party resellers, a move which "drastically" reduced competition.
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Poland today marks 80 years since the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising, when hundreds of Jews launched a doomed attack against the Nazis.
The presidents of Germany and Israel will join their Polish counterpart for the anniversary of the revolt, the largest single act of Jewish resistance against the Germans during World War II.
Church bells and sirens will sound in honour of the insurgents who died fighting rather than in gas chambers.
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20230419-poland-marks-80-years-since-warsaw-ghetto-uprising
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Putin’s homophobia is advancing LGBTQ rights in Ukraine as many have begun to associate anti-gay bigotry with imperial aggression.
Ukraine became the first post-Soviet country to decriminalise homosexuality after independence. But more than 30 years later, it still lags on LGBTQ rights.
Russia’s war in Ukraine is now driving a larger trend of increasing acceptance toward and rights for LGBTQ Ukrainians.
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Germany's imports from Russia have fallen by a staggering 91% in the first year of Moscow's invasion of Ukraine.
Its federal statistics agency, Destatis said that imported goods from Russia were worth €300 million in February 2023, when compared to imports amounting to €3.7 billion in the same month of 2022.
The total meant that Russia had dropped from being Germany's 11th biggest source of imports to its 46th in just a year.
https://www.dw.com/en/german-imports-from-russia-down-by-91/a-65305187
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A domestic Italian clash could soon become a European problem, with Italian cities being prevented from registering foreign birth certificates presented by same-sex couples.
Law forbids the use of assisted reproductive technologies for same-sex couples so children can't have two same-sex parents. Many cities have nonetheless been registering birth certificates coming from abroad.
That's until Italy's new Interior minister ordered the law to be enforced.
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