Een koophuis is al veertig jaar de heilige graal op de woningmarkt, maar inmiddels ligt het eigenwoningbezit aan de basis van een scala aan problemen – van torenhoge woonlasten tot de afnemende steun voor de verzorgingsstaat.
WASHINGTON (ANP) - De Oekraïense president Volodymyr Zelensky is al in Washington aangekomen. Dat meldt hij op X. Hij spreekt maandag met de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump en andere Europese leiders over een mogelijk einde aan de oorlog met Rusland.
Zelensky laat in zijn bericht weten dankbaar te zijn voor de uitnodiging. Ook zegt hij dat de vrede tussen Rusland en Oekraïne blijvend moet zijn. "Niet zoals jaren geleden, toen Oekraïne gedwongen werd de Krim en een deel van ons oosten - een deel van de Donbas - op te geven en Poetin het simpelweg gebruikte als springplank voor een nieuwe aanval."
De Oekraïense president vervolgt dat Rusland een einde moet maken aan de oorlog "die het zelf is begonnen". "Ik hoop dat onze gezamenlijke kracht - met Amerika, met onze Europese vrienden - Rusland tot echte vrede zal dwingen."
WASHINGTON (ANP) - De Oekraïense president Volodymyr Zelensky kan de oorlog met Rusland "bijna onmiddellijk" beëindigen als hij dat wil, als hij afziet van de herovering van de Krim en een NAVO-lidmaatschap voor Oekraïne. Dat schrijft de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump op zijn platform Truth Social.
"Er is geen weg terug naar de Krim die Obama heeft weggegeven en geen toetreding tot de NAVO voor Oekraïne", aldus de Amerikaanse president.
Zelensky spreekt maandagavond in het Witte Huis met Trump en enkele Europese leiders over een mogelijk einde van de oorlog tussen Rusland en Oekraïne.
CANBERRA (ANP) - De Australische luchtvaartmaatschappij Qantas heeft een boete van 90 miljoen Australische dollar (ruim 50 miljoen euro) gekregen voor het onterecht ontslaan van 1800 grondmedewerkers tijdens de coronapandemie.
De rechter heeft Qantas opgedragen om 50 miljoen Australische dollar rechtstreeks aan de vakbond Transport Workers' Union te betalen, die de luchtvaartmaatschappij had aangeklaagd. Over de besteding van het resterende bedrag wordt later beslist, een deel kan terechtkomen bij gedupeerde werknemers.
De boete komt bovenop de compensatieregeling van 120 miljoen Australische dollar die vorig jaar al werd overeengekomen met de getroffen ex-medewerkers.
14 months ago a jury ruled against Boeing, awarding $81 million in damages to failed electric airplane startup Zunum. "Zunum alleged that Boeing, while ostensibly investing seed money to get the startup off the ground, stole Zunum's technology and actively undermined its attempts to build a business," the Seattle Times reported at the time.
But two months later that verdict was overturned, Reuters reports, with U.S. District Judge James Robart deciding that Zunum "did not adequately identify its secrets or show that they derived their value from being kept secret."
And then three days ago a U.S. appeals court reinstated the original $81 million award, reversing that district judge's decision and "rejecting his finding that the information Boeing allegedly stole was not entitled to trade-secret protection."
[T]he district court erred in concluding that "Zunum failed to identify any of its alleged trade secrets with sufficient particularity"... Here, the court rejected Zunum's repeated attempts to introduce comprehensive trade secret definitions into evidence and instead provided the jury with a court-created exhibit enumerating Zunum's alleged trade secrets with a short description of each. Zunum's witnesses identified the trade secrets by number, provided a basic explanation of each, and used exhibits and demonstratives to exemplify information comprising specific trade secrets.
"internal Boeing communications introduced at trial suggesting that Boeing intended to modify its own in-house designs, methods, and strategies to incorporate information from certain Zunum trade secrets..." according to the new ruling. "Under the parties' agreement, Boeing was not permitted to use Zunum's confidential information for any reason other than to manage its investment in Zunum."
Reuters adds that "A spokesperson for Boeing declined to comment on the appeals court's decision"
One final note:
The appeals court also ordered the case to be assigned to a new judge after Robart revealed that his wife had acquired Boeing stock through a retirement savings account during the litigation.
Judge Robart had called that an "error". (And judicial ethics experts interviewed by Business Insider in 2024 "characterized Robart's trades and delayed disclosure to the parties as a minor issue," they reported Thursday.)
But Thursday's ruling notes that the delayed disclosure "taken together with the district court's consistent rulings in Boeing's favor during and after trial, could give an objective observer reason to question the district judge's impartiality in further proceedings."
But two months later that verdict was overturned, Reuters reports, with U.S. District Judge James Robart deciding that Zunum "did not adequately identify its secrets or show that they derived their value from being kept secret."
And then three days ago a U.S. appeals court reinstated the original $81 million award, reversing that district judge's decision and "rejecting his finding that the information Boeing allegedly stole was not entitled to trade-secret protection."
[T]he district court erred in concluding that "Zunum failed to identify any of its alleged trade secrets with sufficient particularity"... Here, the court rejected Zunum's repeated attempts to introduce comprehensive trade secret definitions into evidence and instead provided the jury with a court-created exhibit enumerating Zunum's alleged trade secrets with a short description of each. Zunum's witnesses identified the trade secrets by number, provided a basic explanation of each, and used exhibits and demonstratives to exemplify information comprising specific trade secrets.
"internal Boeing communications introduced at trial suggesting that Boeing intended to modify its own in-house designs, methods, and strategies to incorporate information from certain Zunum trade secrets..." according to the new ruling. "Under the parties' agreement, Boeing was not permitted to use Zunum's confidential information for any reason other than to manage its investment in Zunum."
Reuters adds that "A spokesperson for Boeing declined to comment on the appeals court's decision"
One final note:
The appeals court also ordered the case to be assigned to a new judge after Robart revealed that his wife had acquired Boeing stock through a retirement savings account during the litigation.
Judge Robart had called that an "error". (And judicial ethics experts interviewed by Business Insider in 2024 "characterized Robart's trades and delayed disclosure to the parties as a minor issue," they reported Thursday.)
But Thursday's ruling notes that the delayed disclosure "taken together with the district court's consistent rulings in Boeing's favor during and after trial, could give an objective observer reason to question the district judge's impartiality in further proceedings."
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
luis ricardo 71 has added a photo to the pool:
Zuid-Europa staat in brand. Terwijl ze daar de natuurbranden proberen te bestrijden, valt het in Nederland relatief mee. Maar voor hoe lang nog?
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