Caracas: Venezuela’s currency has suffered another sharp deterioration as tightening US sanctions and restricted access to official dollar markets pushed the bolívar–dollar exchange rate up nearly 480...
Brussels: Corruption in Europe is often framed as a problem rooted primarily in Eastern member states or fragile democracies, while Western Europe is portrayed as largely insulated from systemic abuse...
Brussels: The business of predicting the future has rapidly evolved from an online niche into a multibillion-euro industry, with prediction markets now shaping how elections, financial decisions, and ...
Washington: Newly released minutes from the US Federal Reserve’s December policy meeting show officials were sharply divided over the decision to cut interest rates, underscoring lingering uncertainty...
Rome: Italian police have arrested nine people and seized more than €8 million in assets in an investigation into alleged financing of Hamas through charitable associations, authorities said....
Brussels: Europe’s telecom companies need consolidation to remain competitive and continue investing, according to Orange chief executive Christel Heydemann....
Crypto-asset ownership is steadily increasing across Europe, despite market volatility and a turbulent year for digital assets in 2025, according to recent industry and central bank data....
Japan is moving closer to becoming the world’s third-largest defence spender after its Cabinet approved a record military budget for the 2026 fiscal year....
Google has begun quietly rolling out a long-anticipated feature that allows users to change their Gmail address without losing emails, files, or access to linked services, according to updated guidanc...
A $20 billion agreement between Nvidia and artificial intelligence chip startup Groq is drawing scrutiny from analysts, who say the deal appears carefully structured to limit regulatory exposure while...
After the sharp erosion of purchasing power during the inflation surge of 2022, real wages in much of Europe have largely stabilised. Data cited by the European Central Bank shows that nominal wage gr...
U.S.-based infrastructure investor Stonepeak has agreed to acquire a controlling stake in Castrol, valuing the lubricants business at approximately $10.1 billion (€8.49 billion). The transaction bring...
Germany’s export-driven economic model is coming under rare and simultaneous pressure as demand from both the United States and China weakens, exposing deeper structural vulnerabilities in Europe’s la...
Italy’s competition authority has fined Ryanair €255 million after ruling that the airline abused its dominant position in the Italian aviation market by deliberately obstructing travel agencies’ acce...
Washington: The United States’ expanding campaign to seize oil tankers linked to Venezuelan crude exports is increasingly intersecting with broader geopolitical frictions involving China, raising the ...
Beijing: China has announced provisional tariffs of up to 42.7% on dairy products imported from the European Union, escalating an ongoing trade dispute between Beijing and Brussels that was triggered ...
A French court has rejected a government request to suspend the Chinese e-commerce platform Shein for three months, ruling that the proposed measure would be “disproportionate.”...
Pensions remain the primary source of income for older people across Europe, but how much retirees receive varies sharply from country to country, highlighting deep economic and structural differences...
The decision by Donald Trump to deploy U.S. naval forces to intercept sanctioned Venezuelan oil tankers is testing the legal boundaries of sanctions enforcement and fuelling concerns in Washington abo...
Tokyo - The Bank of Japan has raised interest rates to their highest level in three decades, marking a decisive shift away from ultra-loose monetary policy and reigniting concerns about rising global ...
