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  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    French economy
    French PM Michel Barnier unveils shock therapy in 2025 budget

    Minority government bets on mix of spending cuts alongside tax rises on companies and the wealthy

    Prime Minister Michel Barnier arrives for a weekly cabinet meeting at the Élysée Palace in Paris on Thursday, October 10
  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    US committed to G7 loan for Ukraine despite setback

    Washington is seeking workaround after Hungary blocks request to extend EU sanctions on Russia

    US President Joe Biden, left, shakes hands with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, as they attend a joint press conference in Kyiv in February 2023
  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    EU-China relations
    EU plywood dumping probe opens new front in China trade dispute

    Investigation into cheap wood exports follows producers’ claim the products originated in Russia

    A circular saw going through some plywood
  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    European Central Bank
    ECB will need to step up rate cuts if outlook darkens, chief economist said

    Gloomy economic data concerned Philip Lane and other policymakers, minutes of September meeting reveal

    The ECB building in Frankfurt
  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    EU to delay new electronic border checks

    Biometric system will no longer launch next month after warnings of travel delays

    Passengers stand with luggage in the departures hall at Madrid Barajas airport
  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
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    Inflation and interest rates tracker: see how your country compares

    Inflationary pressures are beginning to wane but not all central banks have taken action yet. See how this affects you

  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    Moldova
    EU pledges €1.8bn for Moldova ahead of membership referendum

    Ukraine’s neighbour has been battered by knock-on effects of Russia’s war

    European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen and Moldovan President Maia Sandu and  attend a joint press conference
  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
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    Germany’s choice Premium content

    Should Europe’s largest economy embrace the future or double down on past successes?

    A bustling street market in Nuremberg, Germany, is filled with shoppers walking past stalls with red and white striped awnings. The street is lined with historic buildings under a clear sky.
  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    Europe Express
    How the EU squandered nearly €11bn of its common budget last year Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Von der Leyen goes to Moldova bearing gifts

    EU flags are seen outside European Commission Berlaymont building
  • Thursday, 10 October, 2024
    Jude Webber
    Ireland is awash with cash but needs an infrastructure vision

    Country struggling to catch up on needs of its expanding population amid near full employment

    View of the new children’s hospital being built in Dublin
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    War in Ukraine
    EU countries back €35bn loan to Ukraine

    Decision follows months of wrangling over how to structure European contributions to G7 aid package for Kyiv

    Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy meets Charles Michel, President of the European Council in Brussels
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    German economy
    Germany expects economy to shrink in 2024 after cutting forecast

    Government predicts rebound in 2025 following 0.2% decline this year as it tries to address long-term structural problems

    German economy minister Robert Habeck sets out the government’s new economic forecasts at a press conference in Berlin on Wednesday
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    Carbon tax
    India denounces ‘stifling’ EU carbon tax on imports

    Finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman says tariffs to be imposed in 2026 will impede energy transition

    India’s finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    Eurozone interest rates
    ‘Highly restrictive’ rates risk hurting Eurozone economy, says Greek central bank chief

    Yannis Stournaras backs two more ECB quarter-point rate cuts this year

    Yannis Stournaras stands at a podium during a news conference in Athens.
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    EU eastern tensions
    Von der Leyen lambasts Orbán over Russia

    European Commission president lashes out at Hungarian leader in unusually blunt address

    Hungary’s PM Viktor Orbán looks on as European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen speaks at the European parliament, in Strasbourg on Wednesday
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    Europe Express
    Viktor Orbán meets his domestic nemesis in Strasbourg Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: The EU’s €35bn Ukraine loan moves from idea to implementation

    Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orbán
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    Inside BusinessRichard Milne
    Costs of the green transition loom large for European companies

    Business leaders say Europe’s policymakers are ill prepared for just how expensive the shift is likely to be

    Workers walk at the snow-covered site of the Northvolt Ett factory in Skelleftea, north Sweden
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    Carlos Torres Vila
    It’s a good thing that European dealmaking is back on the table

    The pressing risk no longer is that banks are ‘too big to fail’ but ‘too small to deliver’

    Façade of the ‘La Vela’ building, in BBVA’s city,  in Madrid
  • Wednesday, 9 October, 2024
    Commerzbank AG
    A Commerzbank takeover? Some Mittelstand executives say why not

    In contrast to Berlin’s stiff opposition, many family-owned businesses are pragmatic about a bid by UniCredit

    Montage of a solar panel farm in Germany, general view of Berlin, €10 note being helf, and an agricultural worker moving boxes on a truck, with the Commerzbank logo in the centre
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    EU-China relations
    China targets EU brandy imports with anti-dumping penalties

    Trade retaliation comes after bloc voted to approve steep tariff increases on Chinese electric cars

    Frederic Barbot, a producer of Cognac, smells a barrel of ageing cognac at Domaine Marcadier-Barbot in Segonzac, south-western France
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
    Europe Express
    How the EU mainstream shifted to the right on outsourcing migration Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: fate of Lebanon peacekeepers overshadows Irish leader’s White House visit

    Migrants are assisted by the Spanish Salvamento Maritimo as they arrive to Los Cristianos harbor in Tenerife
  • Tuesday, 8 October, 2024
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    Strikes threaten Boeing’s bottom line

    Three weeks into industrial action at Boeing, disruption shows no sign of ending

  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    EU capital markets union
    Spain proposes mini-coalitions to break EU capital markets stalemate

    Madrid wants three or more countries to be able to forge ahead when others are opposed

    The EU flag is flanked by two Spanish national flags outside the Bank of Spain in Madrid.
  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    EU energy
    Ukraine recognises Slovakia’s ‘acute dependence’ on Russian gas flows

    PM Denys Shmyhal tells counterpart Robert Fico that Kyiv will meet obligations without renewing Gazprom transit deal

    Slovakia’s PM Robert Fico, left, and Ukrainian PM Denys Shmyhal in Uzhhorod on Monday
  • Monday, 7 October, 2024
    News in-depthIrish economy
    Ireland struggles to consolidate role as data centre hub

    Dublin goes from ‘leader to flounderer’ as planning and energy supply problems lead tech groups to invest elsewhere

    The Equinix DB5 Data centre campus in Dublin, Ireland
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