Berlin’s refusal to back UniCredit’s offer for Commerzbank turns a cross-border banking bid into a wider test of state influence, market control and European financial consolidation. Germany has formally rejected …

EU foreign ministers failed to agree sanctions against Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, but the discussion has shifted towards trade measures targeting goods from Israeli settlements, where unanimity may …

Sweden’s choice of Rolls-Royce SMR over GE Vernova for new reactors at Ringhals gives Europe’s nuclear revival a sharper industrial-policy edge, linking energy security, supply chains and state-backed technology competition. …

Donald Trump’s threat to impose a 100 per cent tariff on French wines has reopened a transatlantic dispute that many European policymakers had assumed belonged to an earlier chapter of …

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 …