Some 60% of CEOs from 35 multinationals in Greece find it likely that their corporation will implement further investments in the country, according to a recent report from Metron Analysis.
- 7 days ago, 12 Jul 19, 11:35am -

Eva Stravs Podlogar, state secretary of Slovenia’s ministry of economic development and technology, tells Sebastian Shehadi about the country’s fast-growing tourism industry, world-leading AI research and hi-tech manufacturing. 
- 7 days ago, 12 Jul 19, 10:58am -

JLR has bucked the Brexit trend by doubling down on its West Midlands plant to produce electric cars, despite many automakers looking beyond the UK. Alex Irwin-Hunt reports.
- 10 days ago, 9 Jul 19, 12:16pm -

The Western Balkans region recorded its highest greenfield FDI inflows in a decade in 2018, as the six countries band together to lure in foreign investors.
- 11 days ago, 8 Jul 19, 6:55am -

Rebecca Jones and Paul Forrest of the West Midlands Economic Forum discuss the difficulty in assessing subnational economic trends and addressing productivity imbalances.
- 16 days ago, 3 Jul 19, 12:02pm -

Jacek Wójcicki, mayor of Gorzów, tells Sebastian Shehadi about the Polish city’s industrial and logistics prowess, and growing number of foreign investors. 
- 16 days ago, 3 Jul 19, 8:07am -

Minister of finance Vilius Sapoka believes recent reforms will position Lithuania as a Baltic tech hub. Cécile Sourbes reports.
- 17 days ago, 2 Jul 19, 7:31am -

The UK saw record high greenfield investment in real estate during 2018, as uncertainty over Brexit makes prices more affordable for foreign investors. Sebastian Shehadi reports.
- 21 days ago, 28 Jun 19, 7:50am -

With its university, businesses and government working in close harmony, Braga has transformed itself into a tech hotbed. However, as Sebastian Shehadi finds, its ambitions now lie on an international stage.
- 36 days ago, 13 Jun 19, 7:16am -

Public discontent with multinational corporations avoiding tax by playing off jurisdictions against each other is growing. An international solution should be found if protectionism and nationalism are to be avoided, says Martin Kaspar.
- 36 days ago, 13 Jun 19, 7:16am -

Dovish remarks from top Fed official deepen expectations for new ECB stimulus
- 2 hours ago, 19 Jul 19, 8:32am -

Minister says new European Commission president has ‘always shown respect’ to country
- 3 hours ago, 19 Jul 19, 7:58am -

An unpredictable US, rising China and revanchist Russia pose serious strategic challenges
- 5 hours ago, 19 Jul 19, 6:00am -

Chancellor sees close confidantes installed in two of the most important jobs in Europe
- 8 hours ago, 19 Jul 19, 2:24am -

Vestager’s last stand
- 11 hours ago, 19 Jul 19, 12:01am -

Appetite for investment in sector grows beyond US
- 12 hours ago, 18 Jul 19, 11:00pm -

The country needs reform-minded parties and policymakers to ensure progress
- 12 hours ago, 18 Jul 19, 11:00pm -

Far-left Podemos rejects idea of supporting socialists without formal coalition role
- 20 hours ago, 18 Jul 19, 2:13pm -

Erdogan’s purchase of Moscow air defence system points to ‘tectonic shift’ in geopolitics
- 21 hours ago, 18 Jul 19, 1:14pm -

Proposal to overhaul dozens of systems heralds likely clash with unions
- 22 hours ago, 18 Jul 19, 1:05pm -

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 -

IT IS ALMOST three months since an election gave Pedro Sánchez, the Socialist prime minister, victory but left him well short of a majority in a fragmented parliament. Spaniards have watched Danes and Greeks swiftly form new governments after more r…
- 24 hours ago, 18 Jul 19, 10:52am -

IN 1953 WORKERS in what was then East Germany protested against their Soviet overlords on Karl-Marx-Allee, a monumental boulevard in Berlin lined with Stalinist apartment blocks. The uprising was crushed. Earlier this year residents of the Allee, now…
- 24 hours ago, 18 Jul 19, 10:52am -

IT IS HARD to imagine a biography less suited to the mood of today’s Europe than that of Ursula von der Leyen, the German incoming president of the European Commission. Insurgent parties are sweeping the continent, cracks are forming between and wi…
- 24 hours ago, 18 Jul 19, 10:52am -

SCIENCE IS STILL a man’s world. Since 1903, when Marie Curie first won the Nobel Prize, almost 600 blokes but only 19 women have taken home the coveted award in physics, chemistry or medicine. In the realms of more ordinary talent, just 28% of the…
- 24 hours ago, 18 Jul 19, 10:52am -

IT IS AN ordinary Monday evening in Dresden. Around 1,000 people have gathered, under gunmetal skies and German flags, for the fortnightly demonstration organised by Pegida (“Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the Occident”). It is a…
- 24 hours ago, 18 Jul 19, 10:52am -

ON THE NORTHERN edge of Provence, a mountain pass winds its way out of a valley of apricot orchards and olive groves into a startling landscape of emerald forest and limestone ridges. This is part of one of France’s newest regional natural parks, t…
- 24 hours ago, 18 Jul 19, 10:52am -

ONE CAN almost hear Wagner’s “Ride of the Valkyries” in Brussels these days. Big Mercedes cars with German plates swoosh up and down its streets. Bigwigs from Berlin bestride the bureaucracy. The full might of the German political and diplomati…
- 8 days ago, 11 Jul 19, 10:51am -

CINEMA CAME to Samorsun, a small village in Russia’s far-eastern republic of Sakha, by way of VHS in the late Soviet era. There, a young Stepan Burnashev devoured pirated Hollywood films. At the time, movies in the local Yakut language barely exist…
- 8 days ago, 11 Jul 19, 10:51am -

CENTRAL ATHENS was uncannily quiet for an election night. Where were the firecrackers and the cars filled with party workers waving Greek flags that would normally race around Syntagma Square blaring out patriotic songs? After Kyriakos Mitsotakis, le…
- 8 days ago, 11 Jul 19, 10:51am -

“HE’S ALMOST here...he’s arrived! He’s arrived!” bawls the mayoral candidate, as a sea of blue and white flags declaring Prima L’Italia, Italy First, wave in the summer evening air of the ancient Umbrian hill city of Orvieto. And as the c…
- 8 days ago, 11 Jul 19, 10:51am -

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…
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 25 Feb 19, 12:52pm -