Rishi Sunak will on Monday propose new measures to help the police stop disruptive public protest in Britain, heading further down a route that has drawn heavy criticism from civil rights groups....
The Bank of England has fully unwound the bond-buying programme it initiated when Liz Truss was prime minister, bringing to an end the emergency measures needed to stabilise the UK economy after her...
13/01/2023
The European Central Bank expects to continue raising interest rates "significantly" at future meetings, at a sustained pace, to ensure that inflation returns to the 2% target over the medium term,...
12/01/2023
Nearly six years after he first won the French presidency, Emmanuel Macron has embarked on an overhaul of the country’s pay-as-you-go pensions system, the mother of all reforms to a creaking welfare...
11/01/2023
The Bank of England’s chief economist on Monday warned that the UK faces a more serious threat of persistently high inflation than other advanced countries, signalling interest rates might have to...
10/01/2023
Europe was the largest customer in the global liquefied natural gas market in 2022, with the region importing substantially higher volumes than rival buyers as it seeks to replace dwindling Russian...
09/01/2023
Lower energy prices helped push inflation down in France, as European stocks rose on growing expectations that inflation has peaked across the region.Source: Financial Times
05/01/2023
The EU is expected to impose pre-departure Covid-19 tests on travellers from China within days to try to prevent a surge in infections in that country spreading to Europe.Source: Financial Times
04/01/2023
Italy is the eurozone country most susceptible to a debt crisis as the European Central Bank raises interest rates and buys fewer bonds in the coming months, economists say.Source: Financial Times
03/01/2023
British annual house price growth marked a further "sharp" slowdown in December, mortgage lender Nationwide said, ending the year on a downbeat note as the impact of surging mortgage costs reversed...
02/01/2023