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| Daily Dispatch | Wednesday | March 29th 2017 |
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| Brexit: A race against time |
| At 1.30pm in Brussels today Britain delivered a six-page letter to Donald Tusk, the president of the European Council, invoking Article 50, the legal mechanism for leaving the EU. In her letter, Theresa May, Britain’s prime minister, told her European partners (seven times) that she wanted a “deep and special partnership” with the EU. The response from Brussels was swift. Mr Tusk issued a curt acknowledgment and said he would publish draft guidelines for the negotiations shortly. The initial talks will probably focus on the rights of 3m EU citizens to stay in Britain (and of 1m Britons to stay in EU countries); finding some way to avert a hard border between Northern Ireland and the Irish Republic; and settling the exit bill that the EU claims Britain must pay. It is the third that could be the most explosive, writes our Brexit editor |
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| Donald Trump and climate change: Scorched earth |
| Yesterday Mr Trump signed an executive order instructing the Environmental Protection Agency to withdraw and replace Barack Obama’s flagship energy policy, the Clean Power Plan. The order will in time kill rules designed to curb methane emissions and the leasing of coal mines on federal land. Courts and lawyers surely await. But since it was never properly implemented, the CPP’s demise hurts less than green groups suggest |
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| Portugal’s comeback: Growing out of it |
| When António Costa, the Socialist prime minister, took office in November 2015, he pledged to “turn the page on austerity” and meet the EU’s stiff fiscal targets. Many called it voodoo economics. Yet Mr Costa has kept his word, cutting the budget deficit to 2.1%, the lowest since Portugal’s transition to democracy in 1974, while raising pensions and wages. Europe’s other centre-left leaders can only dream of his government’s popularity |
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| Hope for the paralysed: Moving moments |
| Two engineers have found a way to let a patient paralysed from the neck down control the muscles in his arm. Using a technique called functional electrical stimulation, they fed brain activity into a computer algorithm, which could detect the patient’s intention to move his arm and trigger the contraction of muscles. The technology will improve, but many hurdles remain before it can be used routinely, writes our science correspondent |
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