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Tory MPs urge Hunt: Break the Bank of England’s QT doom loop

MPs are chafing at the cost of quantitative tightening.

May 19, 2024 1:06 pm CET

Is the Bank of England really a secret political player?

Presented by Llyods.

May 17, 2024 4:30 am CET

Britain’s begging tech giants to list in London. Good luck with that.

“In listings, the game is over,” said Stéphane Boujnah, chief executive of Euronext, the London Stock Exchange’s continental rival.

May 15, 2024 11:41 am CET

Britain’s next financial crash is coming. This time it won’t be the banks.

Since the 2008 global financial crisis, regulators fear that the part of the financial system that sits outside of banks has absorbed all the risk.

May 10, 2024 6:10 pm CET

How dirty Russian money taught Latvia to get serious on sanctions

Centralizing the policing of sanctions could serve as a model for other EU countries.

May 10, 2024 6:00 am CET

Bank of England leaves key interest rate at 5.25 percent

Governor Andrew Bailey opens the door to a first rate cut in June, but warns it’s “not a fait accompli”.

May 9, 2024 1:12 pm CET

Biden’s biggest challenge: How do you even spend $1.6 trillion?

Congress gave Biden a historic sum to green the economy, revive manufacturing and fix crumbling infrastructure. But most of it is unspent.

May 8, 2024 2:50 pm CET

Maltese central bank governor, deputy PM face charges in snowballing corruption case

Malta’s political elite is being rocked by impending charges over a 2015 hospital concession deal.

May 7, 2024 11:22 pm CET

Belgium calls for EU sanctions on imports from Israeli-occupied territories

The call comes after EU countries imposed sanctions on extremist Israeli settlers for the first time last month.

May 6, 2024 5:09 pm CET

The EU’s new plan to break Russian assets stalemate

While billions would be used to buy weapons for Ukraine, neutral countries can limit themselves to providing non-military aid to Kyiv.

May 6, 2024 3:56 pm CET

Has the EU really just found €400B it could spend on defense?

Europe’s rescue fund has nothing left to rescue. It could now become governments’ silver bullet for military investment instead.

May 6, 2024 4:00 am CET

EIB wants more lending firepower as it eyes bigger defense role

It’s the first time Nadia Calviño has publicly called for a formal restructuring of the lender’s gearing ratio.

April 30, 2024 6:21 pm CET
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Springtime comes for Europe’s economy

The EU’s economy grew by 0.3 percent in the first quarter of the year.

April 30, 2024 12:26 pm CET

Europe’s banks retreat from Moscow, with the ECB at their heels

A grinding, slow process nears its end.

April 30, 2024 4:00 am CET

More cash, less screen time: 5 policy takeaways from Macron’s Sorbonne speech

Here’s what you need to know about the French president’s wide-ranging address on Thursday.

April 25, 2024 5:57 pm CET

UK slams MEPs for saying Gibraltar is undermining Russia sanctions

European Parliament vetoes British territory’s removal from money-laundering watchlist amid EU-U.K. talks on its future.

April 25, 2024 6:30 am CET

UK rejects European Parliament’s claim Gibraltar is undermining Russian sanctions

The allegation comes as MEPs vote to keep the British territory on the EU’s money-laundering watchlist, despite European Commission’s decision to remove it.

April 25, 2024 4:00 am CET

Parliament quietly rejects calls to probe Markus Ferber

Decision follows POLITICO investigation into German MEP.

April 24, 2024 7:00 am CET

Focus harder to rival China’s vast global investment plan, Brussels is told 

EU’s Global Gateway funding has been spread “too thinly” and must be concentrated if it’s to stand a chance against Beijing, internal review says. 

April 23, 2024 9:45 pm CET

Bulgaria can’t join the eurozone in January. Here’s why.

High inflation and wavering public support ― in part blamed on Russian disinformation ― means the country is almost certain to miss its 2025 joining target.

April 21, 2024 6:00 pm CET

Floods, war and US inflation crash the IMF party

The risk that lies closest to financiers’ hearts moved a step closer to reality as one of the Fed’s policymakers floated the idea that interest rates may have to rise still further to bring inflation under control. 

April 19, 2024 3:06 pm CET

Liz Truss hates the Bank of England boss. That might just save him

Dubbed the “plank of England” by one newspaper, Andrew Bailey hasn’t always been the most popular figure — but, perversely, criticism from Truss has helped.

April 18, 2024 7:06 pm CET

A new inconvenient truth: Europe’s global plans all require money no one has

A competitive, green Europe will require trillions in investments. No one has a good answer on where that money will come from.

April 17, 2024 5:31 pm CET

Flip-flopping Tories freeze City of London’s green ambitions

Conservatives want to make electoral hay — but without the right rules and regulations, the City could fall behind.

April 17, 2024 6:00 am CET
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