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Expensive fuel and million dollar missiles: Counting the cost of the Red Sea crisis

The combat reports from Western navies operating in the Red Sea in recent days read like missives fr...

8 months ago

German government backtracks on tax hikes for farmers following protests

BERLIN — Germany's three-party ruling coalition on Thursday partly backed down from a proposal to cu...

8 months ago

Germany aims to seize €720M of frozen Russian money

BERLIN — At a time when Germany’s ruling coalition is scrambling to find money due to its still-simm...

8 months ago

Merry Christmas! Now, when is payday?

It’s the most expensive — sorry, wonderful! — time of the year, so we decided to do a thorough and i...

8 months ago

Germany plans partial reform of its debt brake, Lindner says

German Finance Minister Christian Lindner announced plans to reform the country's debt rules to allo...

8 months ago

Europe to be late arrival at Federal Reserve party

The U.S. is having a party, and Europe is going to be unavoidably late to it. No fewer than four cen...

8 months ago

As Germany sneezes, Europe is catching a cold

Germany’s budget mess is threatening to make an already difficult situation worse for the rest of th...

8 months ago

Europe’s farmer protests are spreading. Here’s where and why

The farmer protests sweeping the European Union may have taken political leaders by surprise. But th...

8 months ago

UK Labour’s secret love: The oil and gas industry

LONDON — It was an unlikely stage for a political love-in.Labour Party Leader Keir Starmer and Ed Mi...

8 months ago

Middle East braces for chaos as Iran and West square up

Western warplanes and guided missiles roared through the skies over Yemen in the early hours of Frid...

8 months ago

Former Tory energy minister quits as MP over Sunak’s ‘harmful’ push for new oil and gas

The former energy minister who signed the U.K.’s 2050 net-zero target into law has quit the Conserva...

8 months ago

How Houthi rebels are threatening global trade nexus on Red Sea

The U.S. is mustering an international armada to deter Iranian-backed Houthi militias from Yemen fro...

8 months ago

EU warms up for fight over economic security

BRUSSELS — With an economic boxing match between China and the U.S. in full swing, the EU is getting...

8 months ago

Russian bombs failed to destroy Ukraine’s energy grid. Corruption could break its own

When Vladimir Putin landed in Khabarovsk on his tour of Russia’s Far East last week, he was given a...

8 months ago