Output slows at Stellantis plant in Italy as workers strike over conditions

By Giulio Piovaccari MILAN (Reuters) – Vehicle production has been slowed at a Stellantis plant in southern Italy in the past few days due to strikes by employees protesting over working conditions, the FIOM union said on Friday. The Franco-Italian carmaker assembles the recently launched Alfa Romeo Tonale SUV, production of which is ramping up,…

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G7 finance chiefs debate reducing supply chain reliance on China

By Christian Kraemer and Tetsushi Kajimoto NIIGATA, Japan (Reuters) -Finance leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) advanced economies discussed the need to make global supply chains more resilient by reducing over-reliance on China, German Finance Minister Christian Lindner said on Friday. Japan, which is hosting a three-day G7 meeting to debate key global themes…

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Alphabet CEO to meet EU industry chief Breton, EU deputy chief May 24

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Alphabet Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai will meet European Commission deputy chief Vera Jourova and EU industry chief Thierry Breton in Brussels on May 24, according to the European Commission’s agenda on Friday. Breton is in charge of digital rules that will require Alphabet’s Google and other tech giants to allow business…

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Analysis-Jet orders boom as airlines fear shortage

By Tim Hepher PARIS (Reuters) – Planemakers can’t build them but airlines can’t stop buying them. Even as they wrestle with industrial problems preventing the delivery of jets sold before the pandemic, Airbus and Boeing are totting up billions of dollars of new orders stretching beyond 2030 amid a rebound in air travel. From Air…

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With UK food price inflation at 46-year high, lawmakers launch probe

By James Davey LONDON (Reuters) – British lawmakers launched an investigation on Friday into the fairness of the country’s food supply chain, seeking to understand why households are facing the highest levels of food price inflation since the 1970s. The cross-party Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (EFRA) Committee of the House of Commons, the lower…

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Rights watchdog denounces Italy immigration law as ‘inhumane’

ROME (Reuters) – A new Italian law that narrows asylum rights in an effort to dissuade migrants from heading to Italy is repressive and inhumane, a leading rights watchdog said on Friday. Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s nationalist government drew up the legislation after a shipwreck off southern Italy in February that killed more than 90…

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