World information letter of October 26, 2022

This text covers the long run proprietor of KFC eating places in Russia, the Netherlands asking owners to take photos inside their homes, hate speech towards Ukrainians within the Czech Republic, and extra.

KFC introduced the customer of its eating places and franchise rights in Russia

Yum! Manufacturers introduced the customer of KFC in Russia is Good Service Ltd., an organization that already runs a number of franchises of KFC in Russia. The corporate additionally purchased franchise rights contracts for the community of the 1,000 KFC franchised eating places. KFC didn’t talk the sale worth however in line with Kommersant, a Russian enterprise newspaper, the sale is near 1.3 billion rubles (21 million {dollars}). It provides that each one KFC eating places, together with franchisees, will should be rebranded for Rostic’s, a Russian quick meals firm serving fried rooster.

A take a look at within the Netherlands to raised assess property tax raises privateness issues

Some residents of the Netherlands have been requested to take photos of the within of their homes, of their lounge, kitchen and bathrooms, and to ship them to the municipal tax workplace by e-mail. It’s meant to raised consider the property worth of their house, which helps decide a number of taxes together with the property tax. However the request raises issues about privateness.

Within the Czech Republic, two males had been jailed for hate speech towards Ukrainians

The District Court docket of Kladno on October 26 discovered two males responsible of hate speech towards Ukrainians, sentencing them to 6 and ten months in jail. The decide thought of each defamed the nation of Ukraine and incited hatred, and justified that freedom of speech has some limits. Each apologized for movies they admitted had been inappropriate. Within the indictment, the general public prosecutor defined that the 2 males broadcast dwell movies on Fb during which they defamed Ukrainians. They described them utilizing degrading phrases, calling them “shit” or “soiled” as an example. They acquired hundreds of crowns of donations with their movies.

In Eire, pubs and golf equipment might shut later at night time

Irish Cupboard on October 25 authorised reforms to licensing legal guidelines introduced by the minister for Justice Helen McEntee concerning pubs and golf equipment. Within the reform, nightclubs shall be allowed to open till 6 am and serve alcohol till 5 am. In the course of the week, pubs will be capable of open till 12.30 as a substitute of the present 11.30pm closing time. Late bars will nonetheless be capable of open till 2.30 am with a brand new license. In line with the minister, some estimates recommend solely 80 nightclubs stay in Eire, down from over 500 twenty years in the past and 300 in 2009. The variety of pubs in Eire has additionally been on the decline. Supermarkets and off-licenses will be capable of promote alcohol from 10.30 am on Sundays as a substitute of 12.30 pm. Adjustments are anticipated to be enacted in 2023 if the laws is handed. Eire set a minimal worth of alcohol earlier this 12 months to cut back its consumption.

South Korea’s price range decreases for the primary time in 13 years

The brand new president of South Korea Yoon Seok-yeol, in his handle to the Nationwide Meeting on October 24, introduced that the price range for subsequent 12 months was decreased for the primary time since 2010. He plans to convey the nation’s deficit beneath 50 p.c of the gross home product. Within the context of tensions with North Korea, the protection price range elevated by 4.6 p.c.

A hasty controversy in Poland over France’s reward to Pope Francis?

Pope Francis acquired French President Emmanuel Macron within the Vatican on October 24, in a gathering the president supplied the Pope a present. It was a ebook, a primary version, in French, of For Perpetual Peace by German thinker Emmanuel Kant. However on the within ebook cowl was a stamp, Czytelnia Akademicka we Lwowie, Polish for Tutorial Studying Room of Lviv. If Lviv is these days Ukrainian, it was once Polish between 1918 and 1939. Some Polish noticed the stamp as proof that the ebook belonged to Poland and that had most likely been stolen by Nazis throughout WWII. However French journalist Arnaud Bédat confirmed the ebook supplied to the Pope was already in a bookshop in Paris round 1900 and was just lately purchased 2,500 euros to a bookshop specialised in previous books. Polish Ministry of International Affairs spokesperson Łukasz Jasina solely briefly replied to a tweet that they “know the case.”