Delivered. And that german footballs top brass has signed off on a plan to restart the countrys pointlessly get in may but not Everyone Wants a kickoff in the middle of a pandemic. Im burnt off its good to have you with us we begin tonight with europe and the pandemics cos European Union leaders have moved closer to an agreement on funding a joint Recovery Fund for after the coronavirus pandemic the 27 e. U. Leaders met today in a Video Conference call diplomatic sources say that they agreed to ask the European Council the use executive wing to work out the details of the common support plan of this is the 4th time that leaders have met since the Virus Outbreak began. In italy. Where you cheevers live and ally and she took part in that virtual somebody and she is warning that all e. U. Countries need to see a steady recovery or risk a deepening divisions within your brother pandemic no certainly no borders and is blind to nationalities some countries are certainly hit harder than other
Attempt to quell protests, she said the controversial extradition bill that sparked the demonstrations is, quote, dead lam said there is no plan to restart the legislation and earlier work to amend the bill has been a failure lam suspended the bill but protests continued with calls for it to be withdrawn completely lam did not say that she is officially withdrawing the bill. She said the bill is in the coffin, the bill is dead and no one needs to worry that there will be any tactics to resume the bill in the lenggislative council term Richard Bransons Space Tourism company now planning to go public. That is according to a wall street journal report it will list shares as part of the deal with social capital company, spac. Weve talked about it in the past it was created by a friend of squawk box, spac will invest 800 million in Virgin Galactic, it will get a 49 stake. The stock market listing is expected to take place later this year. Virgin galactic so far sold 600 tickets to space at
American Enterprise Fund bowman cutter. They support Economic Development and generating financial returns. This is nearly two hours. Okay. Lets get started. Im dan runde. Were going to have a conversation about whether or not we need to revisit the concept of u. S. Enterprise funds. U. S. Enterprise funds were launched in the early 1990s by george h. B. Bush, were country focussed where u. S. Government dollars funded investments in developing countries. It was an idea that was ahead of its time. And there were several dozen of these Enterprise Funds that were launched. Many of them were very successful. Some that had some hiccups. But most were broadly very successful. But you would ask yourself, well, why hasnt there is any number of Different Countries where you would say we ought to be applying this. Thankfully, in the obama administration, there were a number of countries where there was political will to apply this tool. And i think its a very valid and useful tool for our tool
Okay. Lets get started. Im dan runde. Were going to have a conversation about whether or not we need to revisit the concept of u. S. Enterprise funds. U. S. Enterprise funds were launched in the early 1990s by george h. B. Bush, were country focussed where u. S. Government dollars funded investments in developing countries. It was an idea that was ahead of its time. And there were several dozen of these Enterprise Funds that were launched. Many of them were very successful. Some that had some hiccups. But most were broadly very successful. But you would ask yourself, well, why hasnt there is any number of Different Countries where you would say we ought to be applying this. Thankfully, in the obama administration, there were a number of countries where there was political will to apply this tool. And i think its a very valid and useful tool for our tool kit in the United States. And so we have examples from tunisia and egypt that were going to talk about as well. Were going to talk a l
Im inspired by the leadership thats earned you the Speakers Office for a third consecutive assembly. Congratulations. Exactly 50 years ago today january 9th, 1967, tom mccall stood where i stand and took the oath of office as oregons governor. Oregon has changed in countless ways in the past half century. But one principle that has been endured can be found in the words governor mccall spoke at the beginning of his inaugural address. Their words about the importance of a strong relationship between the governor and the legislature. To the extent it is humanly possible to do, so said grofrn mccall, let us put aside the temptations to be guided by regionalism, factionalism or anything which frag mentes the public interest. May we pledge to one another to work not in partisanship but in partnership. It is in that spirit that i address you, the members of the 79th Oregon Legislative Assembly and in that spirit that i address all oregonians. Let me start by congratulating my fellow state wi