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Rishi Sunak’s Brexit trade agenda is faltering. Are the Gulf states his last hope?
LONDON — On the Red Sea coast at the northwest tip of Saudi Arabia, plans for an outlandish £400 billion ‘mega-city’ featuring an artificial moon and flying taxis are starting to take shape.While far from completion, the enigmatic project — known as NEOM...
6 months ago
Mario Draghi’s plan to fix a broken Europe already looks impossible
BRUSSELS ― Mario Draghi's outlook for Europe is grim. What's worse is though he knows how to make it better, he probably can't.“We're going to be a society that basically shrinks,” the former European Central Bank chief said in Brussels on Monday as he pr...
1 month ago
You could kill the EU, says France. No, you could, Germany replies.
Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz lead the EU’s two biggest economies, sharing a 280-mile border. But when it comes to protecting Europe from global threats, these neighbors may as well be on different planets.At an event in Berlin this week, the French pre...
1 week ago
EU’s three biggest countries push for bank deregulation
The EU should slash planned rules for its banking sector to boost the bloc’s ability to compete internationally, France, Germany and Italy said. The heads of the treasuries of the three countries — the EU's biggest economies — made the request in a lette...
1 week ago