The proposed break-up of SFR could become an early test of whether Europe’s competitiveness debate is making Brussels more open to telecoms consolidation, or whether consumer-price concerns still dominate merger …

European shares rose to a record after the US-Iran framework eased immediate oil fears, but policymakers still face unresolved questions over energy flows, shipping risk and inflation.

As leaders of the Group of Seven (G7) gathered on the shores of Lake Geneva this week, the mood was markedly different from what many had anticipated only days earlier. …

Germany’s exemption for Deutsche Börse exposes the political fault line at the heart of Europe’s capital-markets reform: more integration in principle, but protection for national champions in practice.

The announcement of a direct high-speed rail link between Brussels and Basel from July 2027 marks another incremental but symbolically significant step in Europe’s gradual reconfiguration of cross-border mobility. The …

For decades, Western democracies have struggled to conduct an honest conversation about immigration. Public debate has often oscillated between two unhelpful extremes: uncritical enthusiasm for ever-rising migration levels, and alarmist …

The next European Union budget has moved from institutional planning into political conflict, after the Cyprus Presidency proposed cutting the Commission’s draft long-term spending plan by about €32.8 billion. The …

The Kremlin has dismissed the European Union’s planned new sanctions against Russian banks, but Moscow’s response points to the central question behind the latest package: whether Russia’s financial system is …

Revolut’s rapid expansion across Europe has run into the harder limits of banking supervision, after reports that the European Central Bank moved last year to restrict the company’s ability to …

The European Central Bank has raised interest rates for the first time since 2023, turning the Middle East energy shock into a direct eurozone borrowing-cost issue for households, companies and …

The European Union has reached a provisional agreement to simplify defence procurement and speed up approval procedures for military-related projects, in a move intended to address one of the most …