Europe – Page 100 – Prologue Journal

U.K. Royal Family Gets Financial Boost From Offshore Wind and Palaces

New York Times Profits at the Crown Estate doubled thanks to offshore wind deals, while visitors to royal palaces are almost back to prepandemic levels. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/23/world/europe/uk-royal-family-finances.html

Macron Rejects Left-Wing Group’s Choice for Prime Minister, Lucie Castets

New York Times The left-wing parties stopped quarreling and tapped a little-known civil servant for the job. But President Emmanuel Macron said he would not appoint anyone until after the Paris Summer Olympics. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/23/world/europe/france-macron-left-wing-prime-minister.html

Brazilian Art Student Switches Coin at the British Museum With a Fake

New York Times The artist aimed to use sleight of hand to point to what he described as the museum’s problematic legacy of colonial-era acquisitions. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/23/world/europe/british-museum-coin-fake.html

Delta Won’t Let Minors Fly Unaccompanied in Wake of Outage

New York Times Pete Buttigieg said on Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Transportation had opened an investigation into Delta’s ongoing response to Friday’s global tech outage. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/23/business/delta-it-outage-flights-minors.html

‘Joker: Folie à Deux’ to Compete at Venice Film Festival

New York Times Pedro Almodóvar’s first English-language feature and new movies from Luca Guadagnino and Pablo Larraín will also debut at this year’s event. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/23/movies/venice-film-festival-joker-folie-a-deux.html

Tuesday Briefing

New York Times Kamala Harris’s first campaign appearance. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/23/briefing/kamala-harris-gaza-strike.html

In Georgia’s Depressed Heartland, Pining for the Soviet Past

New York Times While most Georgians support closer integration with Western Europe, many people in industrial areas that collapsed along with Communism in the 1990s express nostalgia for the old Soviet prosperity. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/23/world/europe/georgia-heartland-soviet-union.html

A U.K. Deportation Plan Cost $900 Million. Only Four People Left.

New York Times Britain’s last Conservative government spent almost a billion dollars on its controversial plan to send asylum seekers to Rwanda, the newly appointed minister for immigration said Monday. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/22/world/europe/uk-rwanda-deportation-plan.html

At Least 6 Killed at a Senior Home in Croatia

New York Times President Zoran Milanovic called for stricter gun control after an attack that shook Croatia, where mass killings are rare. A suspect was arrested nearby. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/22/world/europe/croatia-senior-home-shooting.html

Russia Sentences Alsu Kurmasheva, American Editor, to a Penal Colony

New York Times Ms. Kurmasheva, a Russian American working for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, had been charged in relation to an antiwar book she edited. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/07/22/world/europe/alsu-kurmasheva-sentence-russia.html