One of the toughest questions British Prime Minister Theresa May will have to answer is whether the U.K. will seek to stay, at least temporarily, in the EU’s customs union. There are options.
Mario Draghi risks becoming Europe’s political piñata this year because of highly charged elections in the eurozone’s biggest economies.
Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s far-right National Front Party, took a break from her presidential campaign to make a surprise visit to Trump Tower on Thursday.
Germany’s economy grew strongly, propelled by a buoyant labor market and a pickup in government spending, likely making it one of the fastest-growing of the G-7 industrialized nations.
Christopher Steele, a former British intelligence officer now working for a private security-and-investigations firm, produced the dossier of unverified allegations about President-elect Donald Trump’s activities and connections in Russia.
Among investors and policy makers, all the talk is of political risks and how these might reignite the eurozone debt crisis, but the evidence of 2016 suggests otherwise, Simon Nixon writes.
Norway plans to replace all frequency modulation networks with digital radio by the end of 2017.
In the absence of a detailed blueprint, investors and analysts are paying close attention to the public comments of Prime Minister Theresa May and her team. A perceived shift—or even a lack of one—can send markets spiraling.
The number of asylum seekers entering Germany fell by about two thirds last year but the proportion of rejected applicants who left remained low, the government said, raising fears that criminals or extremists may remain in the country.
Italian Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni has had an emergency surgical procedure to clear an obstructed coronary artery, his spokeswoman said.
Donald Trump and Russia both lashed out at a dossier of unverified allegations involving the president-elect, with Mr. Trump dismissing the claims on Twitter and at a news conference.
Italian police arrested two people for allegedly hacking the email accounts of politicians, entrepreneurs and government officials, including European Central Bank President Mario Draghi.
German officials presented proposed measures to rein in known extremists after authorities failed to prevent a terrorist attack last month by Anis Amri, a Tunisian on a government watch list.
Iceland’s Independence Party announced the formation of a coalition government, ending over two months of stalemate and seeing off a challenge from the anti-establishment Pirate Party.
The real political risks for Europe stem less from national votes across the continent this year than in the EU’s persistent struggle to find common solutions to common problems, Simon Nixon writes.
The Turkish central bank failed to stop the lira’s free fall with its limited step to boost liquidity in financial markets, amid political pressure to keep interest rates low.
U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May said Britain would make a definitive break with the European Union while still seeking to negotiate the best possible access to the bloc’s common market.
A leading opposition figure during the dictatorship, he later became the country’s first constitutionally elected, post-revolution prime minister.
Even though the U.K.’s aims in its exit talks with the EU remain unclear, the likely outcomes have narrowed even before divorce talks start in earnest later this year, Stephen Fidler writes.
Despite the announced withdrawal, Russia has said its support for the government of President Bashar al- and its campaign against ‘terrorism’ in Syria will continue.