How Emmanuel Macron became the most powerful leader in the EU
Alexandre de Streel, a former Belgian diplomat and professor of European law at the University of Namur in Brussels, says:...
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The EU is running out of other people’s money
There was the €750 billion-plus Coronavirus Recovery Fund, designed to help member states bounce back from the pandemic. There is...
UBS makes record bank profit after takeover of troubled Credit Suisse
Thanks for joining me. UBS has made the largest quarterly profit ever recorded by a bank after its $3bn shotgun...
Germany approves €32bn in tax breaks to boost stagnant economy
Thanks for joining me. Union members have been refused bonuses at Network Rail over their decision to go on strike...
Good riddance to Chinese triumphalism as economic disaster looms
Yet the tables soon turned, and in the event, closing down the economy to fight Covid has proved just as...
China offers homeowners first-time-buyer loans in bid to boost market
China is to give existing homeowners access to first-time-buyer mortgages as President Xi Jinping battles to stimulate the country’s floundering...
Deluded Europe can’t see that it’s finished
More acutely, Europeans will fight over the question of immigration. The experts are very clear in their assessment: given the...
The Brics currency ignores all the traumatic lessons of the half-baked euro
“I ask myself every night why all countries have to base their trade on the dollar,” says Brazil’s Lula da...
Only one more interest rate rise, say economists, as UK at risk of recession
Global investors have been offloading China’s flagship stocks in a record-selling streak, showing the nation’s industry leaders are falling out...
FTSE 100 on track to break worst run since 2019
Public sector borrowing was less than forecasts by the Office for Budget Responsibility - providing hopes that Chancellor Jeremy Hunt...
