A veteran member of the European Central Bank’s rate-setting council believes it has only just passed the halfway point of its tightening cycle and needs to be “in there for the long game” to tame...
A Belgian judge has rejected a request by Eva Kaili, the Greek MEP detained in connection with an alleged bribery scandal at the European parliament, to be released from detention under electronic...
23/12/2022
The economic geography of the euro area is often framed in terms of a “core” and a “periphery”, with sovereign bond yields capturing the hierarchy of public debt sustainability.Source: Financial Times
22/12/2022
The secretary-general of the International Trade Union Confederation has resigned less than one month after taking office as he admitted to taking thousands of euros in cash from the MEP at the...
21/12/2022
EU energy ministers have reached an agreement to cap gas prices in the bloc when they hit €180 per megawatt hour for three days despite fears that such an intervention will fail to calm markets and...
20/12/2022
A global deal to set a minimum tax rate for multinationals of 15 per cent achieved a big breakthrough last week, with the EU’s promise to introduce the deal across member states expected to trigger a...
19/12/2022
Christine Lagarde warned markets not to expect an early end to rate rises next year, on a day when the European Central Bank and the Bank of England lifted borrowing costs to their highest levels in...
16/12/2022
UK inflation dipped from a 41-year high in November, raising the possibility that the worst of the cost-of-living squeeze is over.Source: Bloomberg
15/12/2022
The European Parliament removed Greek MEP Eva Kaili as a vice president of the assembly on Tuesday after she was accused of accepting bribes from Qatar in one of the biggest corruption scandals to...
14/12/2022
Belgian police raided a European parliamentary office on Monday in a widening corruption investigation involving World Cup host Qatar as top politicians pledged to clamp down on sleaze.Source: ...
13/12/2022