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  • Tuesday, 15 October, 2024
    Italian politics
    Meloni targets banks and insurers to raise €3.5bn to plug Italian budget

    Rome approves proposals targeting deferred tax payments and stock options in financial sector

    Giorgia Meloni, seated, takes notes during a discussion at the Chamber of Deputies. Next to her is Giancarlo Giorgetti, seated with his arms crossed
  • Tuesday, 15 October, 2024
    EU energy
    France calls for tighter monitoring of Russian gas exports to EU

    LNG flows have increased despite attempts to sanction Moscow and weaken its economy

    Barbed wire on a fence in front of a processing ship moored at the LNG terminal at Lubmin port in Germany
  • Tuesday, 15 October, 2024
    Pollution
    France pushes for ‘flexibility’ on EU car emissions rules

    Economy minister says Paris is sounding out European partners to see what can be done

    Cars are stopped in slowdowns and traffic jams during vacation departures on the first Saturday in July near Valence, France
  • Tuesday, 15 October, 2024
    Euro
    Euro falls to 2-month low as investors price in interest rate cuts

    Single currency has dropped more than 2% against dollar so far this month

    A customer waits to pay at a food market in Berlin
  • Tuesday, 15 October, 2024
    UK trade
    EU and British energy groups call for rewrite of post-Brexit trading arrangements

    Open letter criticises ‘suboptimal’ mechanism under Trade and Cooperation Agreement amid push for more renewables

    A wind farm in the North Sea near Scotland
  • Monday, 14 October, 2024
    Water scarcity
    Almost two-thirds of EU water in bad condition, report shows

    Pressure rises on agriculture and industry to reduce pollution and cut its share of use from 59%

    A water supply gate on an irrigation canal, alongside rice paddy fields on a farm in Spain
  • Monday, 14 October, 2024
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Portugal’s bold plan to win back youth

    Low taxes are just one factor influencing where young people decide to set up

    People wait for a tram in Lisbon. Between 2008 and 2023, an estimated 361,000 people aged between 15 and 35 left Portugal
  • Monday, 14 October, 2024
    Sylvie Kauffmann
    Europe urgently needs a dose of Franco-German couples therapy

    It’s in Brussels’ interests for Paris and Berlin to find a way to work together again

    German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (R) welcomes French President Emmanuel Macron as he arrives at the Chancellery in Berlin on October 2,
  • Monday, 14 October, 2024
    Global Economy
    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

  • Monday, 14 October, 2024
    News in-depthAgricultural commodities
    Olive oil heartlands battle over the industry’s future

    Mega farms are encroaching on a market long dominated by smallholders, as prices remain near record highs

    A person holds recently picked wrinkled olives
  • Sunday, 13 October, 2024
    Eurozone inflation
    Spectre of low inflation returns to haunt Eurozone policymakers

    Weak growth and reduced price pressures could force European Central Bank to consider prolonged series of rate cuts

    Montage featuring ECB president Christine Lagarde, a line showing the rate of Eurozone inflation and the ECB’s headquarters in Frankfurt
  • Sunday, 13 October, 2024
    Poland
    Poland pushes EU to exempt its defence spending from fiscal rules

    Finance minister says Brussels should show solidarity instead of pursuing Warsaw under bloc’s excessive deficit procedure

    Army equipment is seen in the port after the arrival of the first K2 tanks and K9 howitzers for Poland on December 6, 2022 at the Baltic Container Terminal in Gdynia. -
  • Saturday, 12 October, 2024
    Sovereign bonds
    French bond investors on edge after tax-raising budget

    Despite efforts to lower deficit, fund managers say spreads on France’s debt likely to remain elevated

  • Friday, 11 October, 2024
    News in-depthFrench economy
    Macron’s pro-business agenda undercut by French budget plan

    Tax rises, higher labour costs and political uncertainty spook potential investors and threaten to unwind president’s policies

    French Prime Minister Michel Barnier speaks next to a screen displaying a picture of French President Emmanuel Macron
  • 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
    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
    Free LunchMartin Sandbu
    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
    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
    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
    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
    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
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