Berlin’s draft 2027 budget envisages more than €203 billion in federal borrowing as defence and infrastructure expenditure rises, sharpening the question of how national fiscal expansion fits with the EU’s …

Goods trade between the EU and United States reached €875 billion in 2025, but a 20.4 per cent fall in European car and parts exports shows how aggregate resilience can …

Hungary’s new government is promising tougher oversight of electric-vehicle battery factories, testing whether Europe can expand strategic manufacturing without weakening environmental enforcement.

An Indian court effort to expose operators of fraudulent websites has opened a wider dispute over domain anonymity, cybercrime and whether local disclosure rules can coexist with GDPR-style privacy protections.

Ukraine’s president has pressed Dublin to complete its investigation into Aughinish Alumina, confronting Ireland’s new EU presidency with a dispute over Russian ownership, industrial jobs and the credibility of sanctions …

Paramount Skydance has offered remedies for its $110 billion Warner Bros Discovery acquisition, forcing Brussels to balance media concentration against a more permissive competitiveness agenda.

A new €3 customs charge on low-value imports has begun applying across the EU, confronting Shein, Temu and AliExpress with higher costs while testing whether customs authorities can police an …

The EU’s new steel regime cuts duty-free import volumes by 47 per cent and doubles the above-quota tariff to 50 per cent, strengthening protection for European mills while raising costs …

Most listed business development companies in a Reuters analysis have become unprofitable as asset values fall and borrowing costs rise, offering a rare public view of stress inside the private-credit …

Euroclear has asked a Belgian court to block enforcement of a €220 billion Russian judgment, turning the dispute over frozen sovereign assets into a direct test of sanctions law, jurisdiction …

Alice Weidel’s call for Germany to restore Russian oil and gas ties gives the AfD’s economic message a concrete European consequence. Any reversal by Berlin would collide with EU sanctions, …