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Bulgarian PM hints country may miss eurozone entry date

Bulgarian Prime Minister Nikolay Denkov on Saturday said his country may fumble the January 1, 2025,...

8 months ago

France’s fiscal woes cast a long shadow over Macron’s EU ambitions

PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron's lofty European leadership ambitions are once again getting a reality check. The French government is scrambling to make savings and reassure financial markets after official figures this week showed that public...

6 months ago

Missing: A Socialist Green Deal vision

BRUSSELS — A specter is haunting the European Union: The specter of the Green Deal. And Europe’s Socialists are running scared. Over the past year, an alliance has formed to exorcize this specter: Populists and conservatives, nationalists and farmers, Fre...

6 months ago

Macron, Le Maire feud flares up amid France’s fiscal woes

PARIS — France’s Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire is amping up the volume on the need to tackle the country's deteriorating public finances. But his strident calls for deep public spending cuts are quickly getting on the French president’s nerves as the s...

6 months ago

How to navigate Hungary’s EU presidency policy agenda like a pro

This article is part of the Hungarian presidency of the EU special report.The Hungarians are taking over the helm of the Council of the EU in the aftermath of June’s European election, just as horse-trading over the bloc’s top jobs gets into full swing.As...

2 months ago

German coalition’s budget fight is back

BERLIN — It seemed, for a short while at least, that Germany’s tripartite coalition had averted a meltdown due to the budget divisions that have long dogged Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s government.But Finance Minister Christian Lindner has now cast doubt on w...

2 months ago

Europe is betting everything on getting richer

BRUSSELS ― It looks a lot like a continental midlife crisis.Politicians are searching for answers and they're finding a Europe that is grayer, less dynamic and less innovative than ever before. They're betting everything on turning the economy around, eve...

3 weeks ago

Barnier’s first big test: A budget to cut France’s ‘colossal debt’

PARIS — French Prime Minister Michel Barnier is set to unveil his 2025 budget on Thursday in a critical test of both his leadership and whether France’s fractured parliament can function when no party holds a majority.The National Assembly, the more power...

6 days ago