Finance and banking

Trump or not in the White House, NATO has to embrace some hard realities to survive another five — much less 75 — years.

Starmer could be a great reforming Labour PM. Or he could be, as his thwarted enemies call him, a Tory in red.

America has protected Europe with is nuclear umbrella for more than 70 years. In the era of Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump, the continent is quietly debating a different nuclear future.

By trying to please businesses and protect consumers at the same time, two new laws risk undermining each other.

Reports of financial chaos in France have been vastly overstated, Europe’s economic elite say. Instead, the U.S. election is the one to watch.

Markets will certainly make their position known if politicking threatens to stretch public finances.

She struggled to defeat a lettuce and now Britain’s shortest serving prime minister is fighting for her political life in her Norfolk constituency.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy faces charges that part of his 2007 campaign was illegally financed by Libya.

Everything now is just a euphemism for financial repression and austerity. That doesn’t stop politicians looking for magical alternatives.

The French vote could deal a massive blow to the capital’s post-Brexit ambitions.

Meloni’s careful stewardship of the Italian economy has been rewarded by Europe’s famously fickle financial markets. But chaos across the Alps could draw unwanted attention to Italy’s huge debt pile. 

A liberal president constantly fighting a far-right prime minister would be a recipe for political catastrophe.

It’s considered a ‘hanging offense,’ but could some EU countries hash out side deals with the UK on financial services?

French political circles are openly discussing the possibility of a very Italian option: an emergency government of experts. 

Investigators raided Werner Hoyer’s house as part of an “abuse of influence” investigation.

France’s rich-loving president now backs a plan to target them. There’s a high possibility it’s all just a bluff.

Voters may want social care to be on the ballot at the UK general election, but no one seems to be listening.

Klemen Boštjančič happy to work with National Rally and says U.S. election is “not that important” compared with what’s happening in Europe.

Struggling leaders in America, Britain and France are bombarding their political opponents, some of whom are testing the bounds of the mainstream.

In their hour of greatest need for a liberal successor to the country’s president, France’s centrists are in panicky disarray.

Military to suspend fighting along a road in southern Gaza during certain hours to allow aid deliveries to reach Palestinians.

The conservative New Democracy party, which has ruled the country since 2019, came first in the vote, but the result missed the prime minister’s target.

Keir Starmer is promising change from 14 years of Tory government. In fiscal terms, it’s not so much — for now.