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US sticks it to WHO as Xi offers vaccine hopeUS Health Secretary Alex Azar said the WHO failed at its core mission, ; while China backed broad vaccine access. Copy LinkCopiedShare via emailShare on XShare on WhatsAppShare on LinkedInFree article usually reserved for subscribersU.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar speaks in stanley cup the Rose Garden at the White House on May 15, 2020 in Washington, D.C. | Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty ImagesMay 18, 20208:03 pm CETBy Sarah WheatonGlobal fault lines over the coronavirus response were laid bare as the U.S. ripped into China and the Wo stanley taza rld Health Organization at the U.N. health bodys annual assembly on Monday.U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar said the WHO failed at its core mission 鈥?and that at least one member country ignored its transparency obligations, an apparent reference to China.Beijing, meanwhile, hewed closer to the WHO and Europe as Chinese President Xi Jinping endorsed the principle of making any vaccine produced in his country globally accessible.AdvertisementAdvertisementThat announcement leaves the U.S. in an increasingly isolated position at the WHO, where stanley canada it remains the biggest funder pending President Donald Trumps decision to suspend payments.In a video message to the World Health Assembly, Azar echoed Trumps critique, citing a failure by this organization to obtain the information that the world needed as one of the primary reasons this outbreak spun out of control. In an ap Vrnz Erdo臒an back on the campaign trail after falling ill earlier in week
Madrid compromise over pension investment wins supportSPAIN has won the backing of the stanley cup EU biggest insurance market for new proposals designed to break the deadlock over European company pension rules.Copy LinkCopiedShare via emailShare on XShare on WhatsAppShare on LinkedInMay 1, 20025:00 pm CETBy Peter ChapmanMember st stanley taza ates have clashed for more than a year over the level of freedom that should be given to fund managers when making investment decisions.The idea behind the proposals from Single Market Commissioner Frits Bolkestein is to cut red tape for firms wishing to have just one pension fund for all their employees, regardless of where they work in Europe.Bolkestein had threatened to withdraw his proposal if member states pressed for a regime that would add to the regulatory burden faced by fund managers in the UK, Ireland and Netherlands which have the most liberal regimes and successful private pension markets.AdvertisementAdvertisementBut the Association of British Insurers stanley vaso , whose members have investments worth 1.8 billion euro, said this week the industry could live with a flexible solution tabled by Madrid.Its EU affairs manager Simon Gentry said: We think this is a reasonable and balanced compromise. It doesn ;t deliver a true single market for occupational pensions but it a step in the right direction.The UK, Ireland and Netherlands backed the original Commission proposals that would have allowed fund manager
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