Roland Methling, lord mayor of Rostock, tells Sebastian Shehadi about the city’s strategic location, established infrastructure and sectoral specialisms.
- 27 days ago, 21 Feb 19, 11:42am -

UK business secretary Greg Clark expressed his disappointment with the Japanese carmaker's decision to shut its Swindon plant in 2021. Alex Irwin-Hunt reports
- 29 days ago, 19 Feb 19, 8:08am -

The Ukrainian port city of Odessa has turned the page on the tensions that erupted in 2014, and is newly crowded with visitors as local authorities upgrade its infrastructure and stir up SMEs. Yuri Bender reports. 
- 34 days ago, 14 Feb 19, 7:00am -

Vilius Sapoka, Lithuania’s minister of finance, tells Sebastian Shehadi about the country’s growing tech hub and burgeoning start-up scene, or ‘Litechnia’, as he calls it.
- 34 days ago, 14 Feb 19, 7:00am -

Dmitry Krutoy, the economy minister of Belarus, tells Jacopo Dettoni how a privatisation plan will transform the country and make it more attractive to investors.
- 34 days ago, 14 Feb 19, 7:00am -

Local investment promotion agencies are going the extra mile to emphasise that opportunities will remain within the UK regardless of how the country leaves the EU. Jacopo Dettoni reports.
- 34 days ago, 14 Feb 19, 7:00am -

As the UK nears the end of its rollercoaster ride to ‘take back control’ by leaving the EU, Jacopo Dettoni examines whether or not the country has a clear, workable vision of its future.
- 34 days ago, 14 Feb 19, 7:00am -

‘Discovered’ by tourists in recent years, Porto is welcoming records numbers of visitors and experiencing soaring rental and property prices. Sebastian Shehadi reports.
- 35 days ago, 13 Feb 19, 10:35am -

Reclaiming its role as a global city for business and tourism, Porto is witnessing rapid transformation and record highs as it pushes aside years of economic decline. Sebastian Shehadi reports.
- 35 days ago, 13 Feb 19, 10:34am -

Rui Moreira, mayor of Porto, tells Sebastian Shehadi about the city’s business boom and explains how its many sector-based clusters will keep it firmly on the radar of foreign investors.
- 35 days ago, 13 Feb 19, 10:34am -

Delegates will decide the fate of its Hungarian ‘enfant terrible’ and his Fidesz party
- 2 hours ago, 20 Mar 19, 3:56am -

Rattled by Beijing’s economic clout, the EU is finally trying to devise a tougher strategy to deal with the Asian powerhouse
- 6 hours ago, 19 Mar 19, 11:53pm -

Search engine seeks to draw a line under antitrust battles with Brussels
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- 13 hours ago, 19 Mar 19, 4:39pm -

Barnier lays down conditions ahead of summit where PM will seek extension
- 14 hours ago, 19 Mar 19, 3:30pm -

Diplomat sparks anger after public criticism of Berlin’s military spending plan
- 16 hours ago, 19 Mar 19, 1:32pm -

Britain is caught in the middle of a regulatory tussle between the US and the EU
- 17 hours ago, 19 Mar 19, 12:15pm -

Status can only be earned rather than created overnight
- 18 hours ago, 19 Mar 19, 11:48am -

Fourth-quarter pace matched previous three months as services industry especially strong
- 20 hours ago, 19 Mar 19, 9:08am -

Norwegian group ceases production at some plants as it rushes to identify virus
- 22 hours ago, 19 Mar 19, 7:08am -

There are signs of a decline in the bond market, and that spells bad news for the wider economy. The markets are a good predictor of the state of the overall economy, historically around six months ahead of what's to come. The decline, coupled with l…
- 6 Dec 15, 5:07pm -

Central banking authorities should not be afraid to return to normalized behavior in 2016, the Bank for International Settlements said Sunday in its quarterly report. As new jobs are created in the U.S. and the market becomes more shock absorbent, th…
- 6 Dec 15, 11:42am -

Greek lawmakers approved a 2016 budget early on Sunday including more than 5 billion euros ($5.44 billion) in spending cuts and some 2 billion in higher taxes meant to satisfy international lenders.The leftist-led government of Prime Minister Alexis…
- 5 Dec 15, 7:17pm -

The central governing body of the European monetary union reportedly is on edge as it grapples with British Prime Minister David Cameron's call to reimagine the European Union as a "multicurrency union," the Financial Times reported.
- 5 Dec 15, 3:39pm -

In testimony before Congress Thursday, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen expressed confidence that the economy has healed sufficiently to raise benchmark interest rates at the Fed's next rate-setting meeting later this month. "The U.S. economy has…
- 3 Dec 15, 12:29pm -

On a sprawling campus in southern France, a revolutionary kind of power plant is steadily rising from the ground. Scientists and engineers from dozens of countries are building a facility that will eliminate all the negatives of today’s power suppl…
- 3 Dec 15, 11:32am -

European Central Bank President Mario Draghi called on eurozone member states Thursday to do more to improve the economy. Asserting that the ECB's easy-money policy has been "a success," Draghi said nonetheless more needs to be done.
- 3 Dec 15, 10:39am -

UPDATE: 7:47 a.m. EST -- The European Central Bank announced Thursday that it will reduce the deposit rate on reserves held at the central bank by 10 basis points to -0.3 percent, effective from Dec. 9. Further monetary policy measures will be anno…
- 3 Dec 15, 1:02am -

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen laid the groundwork for a modestly optimistic view of the nation's economy and, thus, a basis for a benchmark interest rate hike this month. Such a move would mark the first such increase in almost a decade, som…
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- 2 Dec 15, 6:15am -

YOU GET what you pay for. And if you pay €1.7m ($1.9m), next year you can take delivery of an electric car that can reach 412kph (256mph). The C_Two, says Mate Rimac, who builds them, is the most powerful road car ever. “Not electric, not hybrid,…
- 6 days ago, 14 Mar 19, 11:43am -

THE REVAMPED Confluence neighbourhood of Lyon is a laboratory for modern eco-living. A self-driving electric bus runs along the river Rhône, and green architecture overlooks converted docks. Waterfront cafés serve health food, and arts centres rise…
- 6 days ago, 14 Mar 19, 11:43am -

THE SWISS are getting ready once again for a referendum that could muck up their relations with the European Union. On May 19th they will have a chance to block an EU law that is meant to protect the continent against terrorism by forcing the Swiss,…
- 6 days ago, 14 Mar 19, 11:43am -

A MEMORIAL COMPLEX featuring photographs of brave protesters fills Kiev’s Independence Square, or Maidan. Displays reproduce Ukrainians’ Facebook posts from key moments during the movement that overthrew the former president, Viktor Yanukovych,…
- 6 days ago, 14 Mar 19, 11:43am -

FOR TURKEY’S president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a deal is a deal. “There can never be a turning back,” Mr Erdogan said on March 6th, referring to his country’s purchase of a Russian air and missile defence system, which America and NATO strongl…
- 6 days ago, 14 Mar 19, 11:43am -

DUMPING ON VOTERS is rarely a winning strategy for politicians. But Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer, who leads the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), Germany’s largest party, says her compatriots are becoming “the most uptight people in the world”. M…
- 7 days ago, 13 Mar 19, 3:12pm -

ON JUNE 16TH 1989 Hungarians gathered to rebury Imre Nagy. The liberalising prime minister’s overthrow had prompted the uprising against Soviet rule 33 years before. In Heroes’ Square in Budapest they placed flowers and wreaths around his coffin…
- 13 days ago, 7 Mar 19, 10:49am -

MARCO DI LAURO, otherwise known as “F4” or Il Fantasma (“The Ghost”), was sitting eating pasta when police broke into the cramped apartment he shared with his partner. Around 150 operatives from all three Italian national police forces had be…
- 13 days ago, 7 Mar 19, 10:49am -

WHEN THE Soviet people turned on their television sets on August 19th 1991, they knew there was an emergency. Every channel was playing classical music or showing “Swan Lake” on a loop. A few hours earlier Mikhail Gorbachev had been detained duri…
- 13 days ago, 7 Mar 19, 10:49am -

FOR NEARLY three months, the formerly globe-trotting French president has scarcely left the country. Instead he has cleared his diary to criss-cross France, staging nearly a dozen town-hall meetings in a “great national debate” intended to counte…
- 13 days ago, 7 Mar 19, 10:49am -

Italian politicians have a long record of granting amnesties allowing homes in earthquake-hit areas to be rebuilt. The upstart government was supposed to change that, but it has bowed to local pressure—a sign of how Italian political habits die har…
- 17 days ago, 3 Mar 19, 4:05pm -

Moscow pledged much-needed international support for Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro’s embattled government while the U.S. announced a new round of sanctions, as a bitter standoff intensifies.
- 19 days ago, 1 Mar 19, 1:39pm -

The protest movement is bitterly divided over whether to coalesce into a formal organization or keep its antiestablishment roots, as it presses President Macron for change
- 20 days ago, 28 Feb 19, 12:46pm -

Prime Minister Theresa May will allow parliament to vote on delaying the U.K.’s exit from the EU if lawmakers reject her divorce agreement, greatly reducing the possibility of an exit without a deal.
- 21 days ago, 26 Feb 19, 8:12pm -

European Union officials used a first-of-its-kind summit in Egypt this week to press Arab leaders to impose stability and stem migration but played down calls for democracy, reflecting a desire for calm after years of border tumult.
- 21 days ago, 26 Feb 19, 7:28pm -

With weeks to go until Britain is officially scheduled to leave the European Union, politics has finally—slightly—jolted investors out of a prevailing mood of Brexit boredom.
- 21 days ago, 26 Feb 19, 6:39pm -

The most senior Vatican official to ever stand trial on child sex-abuse charges was found guilty of assaulting two choirboys at a church in his former diocese.
- 22 days ago, 26 Feb 19, 8:25am -

The U.K.’s main opposition Labour Party said it would support holding a second Brexit referendum, a policy shift that breathes some life into the prospect of Britons voting again on whether the U.K. should leave the EU.
- 22 days ago, 25 Feb 19, 5:53pm -

The French public has begun to turn against the yellow vest movement, with a new poll for the first time showing majority supporting an end to the protests. The shift in sentiment offers a sign of relief for President Macron.
- 22 days ago, 25 Feb 19, 4:37pm -

A top Russian state television broadcaster held out the possibility of a nuclear exchange with the U.S., boasting that the Kremlin could retaliate with strikes on the Pentagon and Camp David.
- 23 days ago, 25 Feb 19, 12:52pm -