Moscow is ready to host key matches in the 2018 World Cup, topping off years of rebuilding its sports and hospitality infrastructure. But much has yet to be done to fully modernise the city, while international sanctions are still biting, as Jacopo D…
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Aragon is one of Spain's best performing autonomous communities, which is testament to its favourable location, highly skilled workforce and expertise in sectors such as automobile manufacturing. Jason Mitchell speaks to president Javier Lambán abo…
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Aragon’s culture of innovation has put it at the cutting edge of R&D – and is helping the region to build a bridge to China. Jason Mitchell reports.
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Built on the three pillars of automotives, logistics and agribusiness, Aragon has secured itself a place in Spain’s industrial success story. Jason Mitchell reports on how the region thrives in a variety of fields.
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Bordeaux mayor Alain Juppé has ambitious plans to create 100,000 new jobs by 2030, and is leveraging the French city's world-class reputation for wine to attract other investment with the Magnetic Bordeaux campaign. He talks to Courtney Fingar.
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French economist, writer, political adviser and senior civil servant Jacques Attali tells Courtney Fingar why he backs president Emmanuel Macron's reform plans, and explains why adult education is one of the most important areas of reform.
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Courtney Fingar talks to Arantxa Tapia, minister for economic development and infrastructure of the Basque Country, about the challenges of generating enough renewable energy to meet the needs of its substantial industrial sector.
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Bordeaux enjoys the many tourists and the association with quality that its eponymous wine brings, but the French city is busy developing business clusters in other sectors – and is attracting plenty of investment, as Courtney Fingar discovers.
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Poland has broken into the top three in the European rankings for FDI destinations – though rising labour costs are having an effect. Adam Woźniak of Polish business news daily Rzeczpospolita reports.
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Istanbul is undergoing major infrastructure projects to match the ambitions of Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Yet the future of both hinges on the outcome of the country's June 24 elections, as Jacopo Dettoni reports. 
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Paschal Donohoe seeks to avoid overheating economy and repeat of boom and bust
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In addition to feeble productivity growth, Italy has a large competitiveness handicap
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Supplies of gas run dry in Europe as plants close for maintenance
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Deal has symbolic weight but falls short of French hopes
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Migration comes back to haunt Germany’s chancellor ahead of EU summit
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Stark finding drawn up for European summit as May faces decisive Commons vote
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Idea for triage of asylum seekers skirts policy divisions but faces legal obstacles
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Killings in Malmo are latest in a series of violent attacks to unsettle voters
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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…
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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.
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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…
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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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FEMINISTS were delighted by Justin Trudeau’s response when he was asked, shortly after becoming Canada’s prime minister, why half the members of his cabinet were female. “Because it’s 2015,” he said. Three years on, not many countries ha…
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GERMANY has long considered itself a bridge between east and west Europe. Karel Schwarzenberg, a Czech former foreign minister, recalls Helmut Kohl telling him in the 1990s that, having tethered itself to the West during the cold war, his country…
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Alexander solved knotty problems fasterALEXANDER THE GREAT conquered the ancient world in far less time than it took the two countries that claim his mantle to agree on a name for one of them. But better late than never. On June 12th Greece and i…
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POLAND has both a president and a prime minister, but Jaroslaw Kaczynski, chairman of the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party, is its real leader. Mr Kaczynski, who turns 69 next week, is an ordinary MP with no cabinet post. Yet since PiS came to p…
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YOU can’t fault them for trying. Discussing trade at last week’s disastrous G7 summit in Quebec, Europe’s leaders met Donald Trump’s volley of insults and half-truths with a fusillade of facts. Emmanuel Macron explained how market access w…
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WHEN Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan urged his supporters in December 2016 to defend their currency, the lira, by selling their dollars, euros and gold, scores of them answered the call. In Konya, a city in Turkey’s conservative heartl…
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Putin puts the boot inVLADIMIR PUTIN rarely speaks English in public, but he made an exception in 2010, when Russia won the right to host the World Cup in 2018. “From bottom of my heart, thank you,” he told the FIFA organising committee. For…
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WITH unforeseen suddenness, a new political era has begun in Spain. Having ousted Mariano Rajoy, the long-serving conservative prime minister, in a parliamentary censure by 180 votes to 169, this week Pedro Sánchez, the Socialist leader, formed a…
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ON A cloudy night Anderijn Peeters, a horse-trainer turned environmental protester, parks at a wildlife preserve 30km east of Amsterdam. The back of her van is full of hay. Two more cars of activists pull up, after driving circuitously through nei…
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SOMETIMES silence speaks louder than words. Italy’s interior minister, Matteo Salvini, did not utter a word of condemnation of the murder of Soumaila Sacko, a 29-year-old Malian trade unionist, on June 2nd. Mr Sacko was campaigning to improve th…
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France and Germany agree on broad overhauls for the European Union as they strain to contain divisions in the bloc and Chancellor Angela Merkel battles to preserve her government in Berlin.
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The European Union’s second-highest court ordered the French far-right politician to repay nearly $346,000 of public money that the European Parliament said she misspent while an EU lawmaker.
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With an escape game and networking parties, La Scala and the Paris Opera are attracting under-30 audiences
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With no water and little oxygen, a firefighter wonders if he made the right decision when he turned around before he could reach his rescue target in the Grenfell fire one year ago: “It is a decision that will always haunt me.”
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel secured a two-week reprieve in her confrontation with her coalition partner, averting at least temporarily avoiding a collapse of her government over migrants.
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England is off to a winning start as Harry Kane leads team to victory with last-minute winner against Tunisia.
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Struggling to find jobs, and often living at home, younger generations are propelling antiestablishment parties to new heights of power. The revolt helped created Western Europe’s first populist government, in Italy, and threatens to rear its head…
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Ships in the Aquarius aid convoy docked at the Spanish port of Valencia, ending a weeklong ordeal for some 630 people who were rescued from the Mediterranean only to become the latest pawn in Europe’s battle over immigration.
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In unusually blunt language, Pope Francis said that “to have an easy life, one does away with an innocent.” The pope also said the only real families are those based on marriage between a man and a woman.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel turned to her European neighbors this weekend for help with a fierce domestic dispute over immigration that is threatening to topple her three-party coalition.
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