With a budget crisis looming, a proposal for a tax on ultrahigh-wealth individuals has grass-roots support, but it adds conflict to an already fragmented political landscape.
Protesters carried a banner that reads, “Macron resign. General strike,” in Paris on Thursday. In major cities across France, protesters chanted demands for “fiscal justice.”
The vacation, amid diplomatic talks on oil industry expansion, is a measure of how hard it is to tell where the interests of government end and those of the Trump family begin.
The Phoenix 2 in Zadar, Croatia, in 2023. The craft is said to belong to the petrochemical magnates Ercument and Ruya Bayegan. Ms. Bayegan’s energy company stands to benefit from any increase in Libyan oil production.
Some residents of the Pierre claim that Howard Lutnick, who owns the penthouse, was part of a plot to sell off this symbol of Manhattan glamour and wealth.