BRUSSELS: When the chips are down in Europe, everyone turns to Angela Merkel for a solution. But the German chancellor often sits on her hands until the last...
It was a strangely 20th-century coup, defeated by 21st-century technology and people power.When a self-styled military “Peace Council” tried to topple Turkish...
PARIS: Delving into the history of a family art business she once shunned, French celebrity journalist Anne Sinclair is returning to public life by...
BRUSSELS: Britain’s partners are stepping up warnings that if it votes next week to leave the European Union, banks and financial firms based in London could...
BRUSSELS: Europe’s emerging migration policy is looking increasingly like Donald Trump without the hair. Except that, unlike the Republican presidential...
PARIS: It’s little wonder the European Union can’t find common solutions to Europe’s urgent problems when its main members are having such different national...
BRUSSELS: When Iran and the United States sealed the implementation of a deal to curb Tehran’s nuclear program with a prisoner exchange last month, Siamak...
LONDON: The European Union formally abandoned Tuesday the founding principle that all of its members are heading toward ever closer integration, only at...
BRUSSELS: The European Union needs an ambitious grand bargain at its next summit to rescue itself from a slew of crises that threaten to blow apart its model...
DAVOS, Switzerland: Central banks still have more firepower they can use to counter a slowdown in global growth, which does not change the outlook for...
BRUSSELS: Europe is torn between upholding its values and pursuing its interests in the multiple crises over refugees, challenges to the rule of law,...
BRUSSELS: Poland’s crackdown on the judiciary and public media, emulating Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s accumulation of power, has raised fears in...
BRUSSELS: Eurozone partners are impressed with Greece’s progress in implementing its latest bailout but have misgivings about its proposal to partly fund a...
ATHENS: After a tumultuous year of two elections, a referendum, a default, a bank shutdown, capital controls and a tidal wave of migrants, it’s amazing that...
MOSCOW/BRUSSELS: The leaders of Russia and France avoided each other’s gaze as they made short, stiff statements in the Kremlin Thursday before talks on...
PARIS: French President Francois Hollande is under pressure to change policy in Syria’s civil war and work more closely with Russia after a wave of...
BRUSSELS/ATHENS: Greece’s leftwing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras faces a showdown with rebels in his own party Tuesday furious at his capitulation to...
BRUSSELS: “We’re going bust.” “No, you’re not.” “You’re strangling us.” “No we’re not.” “You owe us for World War II.” “We gave already.”The game of chicken...
BRUSSELS/BERLIN: German Chancellor Angela Merkel was expected to press Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras Thursday to move faster to agree detailed economic...
DAVOS, Switzerland: Central banks have done their best to rescue the world economy by printing money and politicians must now act fast to enact structural...
FRANKFURT: The European Central Bank is considering a hybrid approach to government bond purchases which would combine the ECB buying debt with risk sharing...
BRUSSELS / LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron challenged a demand from the European Union for an additional 2.1-billion-euro payment into this...
PARIS: The European Union’s budget rules faced their biggest test in over a decade Wednesday after France presented a draft 2015 budget breaking past...
PARIS: In the biggest advance in European integration since the launch of the euro in 1999, the European Central Bank (ECB) will take charge of supervising...
If the battle in Iraq and Syria were being fought by tycoons rather than jihadis, it might be called a hostile takeover in defiance of the main shareholder...