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Mob of German farmers accosts top Green as protests escalate
BERLIN — Tensions over Germany's budget crisis escalated significantly late Thursday as a group of a...
8 months ago
Party vote provides slight relief for Germany’s troubled coalition
BERLIN — The rulers of Germany’s fractious three-party coalition government can breathe a small sigh...
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
Jeremy Hunt to unveil pre-election budget on March 6
LONDON — Britain's chief finance minister Jeremy Hunt will unveil his next budget on March 6, the U....
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
The EU got its first climate report card. It’s not good
Now’s not the time for Green Deal fatigue. In fact, Europe must accelerate its efforts. That’s the b...
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
Rishi Sunak appears to rule out spring UK election
LONDON — Rishi Sunak said his “working assumption” is that he won’t call a U.K. general election unt...
8 months ago
Europe needs more cash, Belgian PM says
The European Union needs more of its own money, Belgian Prime Minister Alexander De Croo told POLITI...
8 months ago
No changes in new tax regime from April 1: Finance Ministry
No changes are being made to the new tax regime from the financial year 2024-25, which begins April 1, the finance ministry has said, describing as misleading some social media posts that said otherwise.Though the new tax regime is the default one, taxpay...
6 months ago
Labour will back ‘boiler tax,’ says Miliband
LONDON — The Labour Party will introduce a controversial “boiler tax” if it gets into power at the next election, the shadow energy secretary said on Tuesday.Ed Miliband, speaking at an event in London, said that Labour would “support the Clean Heat Marke...
6 months ago
UK Budget 2024: All the highlights
LONDON — Jeremy Hunt rolled the pre-election dice Wednesday.The U.K. chancellor delivered a budget full of measures aimed at boosting Britain's sluggish growth and reversing his party's electoral fortunes. In doing so, he parked a fair few tanks on the op...
6 months ago