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  • Friday, 30 May, 2025
    Italian economy
    Italy’s exodus of young talent worsens population squeeze

    Central bank governor Fabio Panetta warns the brain drain is adding to pressure on the economy

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  • Thursday, 29 May, 2025
    German economy
    Berlin urges Brussels to approve subsidies for German heavy industry

    Economy minister Katherina Reiche says Germany’s steel and chemicals sectors are essential for Europe’s competitiveness

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  • Wednesday, 28 May, 2025
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    European homeowners face rising mortgage costs until 2030

    Many fixed-rate loans taken out in era of low and negative interest rates are now coming to an end, the ECB warns

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  • Tuesday, 27 May, 2025
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    Bulgaria says it is back on track to adopt euro in 2026

    Eurozone accession was repeatedly pushed back due to political turmoil and rising inflation

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  • Tuesday, 27 May, 2025
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    ECB hawk calls for rate cut pause until September amid trade tensions

    Austrian central bank governor warns earlier reductions are ‘more risky’ and will have ‘no effect’ on growth in the currency bloc

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  • Tuesday, 27 May, 2025
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    Now is the time to reopen the Eurozone bond debate

    The EU now has a unique chance to capitalise on investor doubts about the US and promote the euro as a reserve currency

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  • Thursday, 22 May, 2025
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    Droughts are major threat to Eurozone economy, warns ECB

    Eurozone banks hold €1.3tn in loans to sectors most exposed to severe water shortages, including farming

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  • Thursday, 22 May, 2025
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  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
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    Companies will be given 18-month window for shares to start trading, after several eleventh-hour IPO cancellations

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  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    Special ReportEurope’s Best Employers 2025
    Germany’s model of worker-employer decision-making proves resilient

    Despite industrial strife and a rapidly changing workplace, close ties between companies and employees can be an asset

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  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
    Special ReportEurope’s Best Employers 2025
    Mercadona: good employment practices pay off

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  • Wednesday, 21 May, 2025
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    The pharma hub stands to lose a lot in the US president’s second term

  • Tuesday, 20 May, 2025
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    Polish stocks enjoy big rally as investors seek havens from trade war

    WIG index up more than 28% this year as one of world’s top performing bourses, helped by Germany’s fiscal ‘bazooka’

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  • Monday, 19 May, 2025
    EU cuts growth outlook as tariffs fuel uncertainty

    European Commission expects Eurozone economy to expand 0.9% in 2025 and 1.4% in 2026

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  • Sunday, 18 May, 2025
    News in-depthGerman economy
    A nation of slackers? Why Friedrich Merz wants Germans to work more

    Bleak demographics and short average work weeks could come to haunt Europe’s largest economy

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  • Sunday, 18 May, 2025
    Eurozone interest rates
    ECB may have to cut interest rates below 2%, former hawk says

    Downside risks to growth and inflation have become bigger, Belgian’s central bank governor warns

    The headquarters of the European Central Bank stands illuminated in a rehearsal prior to the 75th anniversary of the Schuman Declaration on May 08, 2025
  • Sunday, 18 May, 2025
    EU energy
    Portugal blames France for delays to power links after Iberian blackout

    Last month’s outage has revived a decades-long dispute over cross-border electricity connections

    People walk down the street during the power outage in Granada, Spain on April 28
  • Tuesday, 13 May, 2025
    Martin Wolf
    The challenge of using excess global savings

    We now seem unable to turn the surplus in some countries into productive investment elsewhere

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  • Monday, 12 May, 2025
    News in-depthEU budget rules
    From hawk to offender: Berlin’s spending ‘offensive’ saps EU fiscal rule book

    Germany leads efforts to loosen EU debt and deficit caps as it gears up to deploy €1tn

    Germany’s finance minister Lars Klingbeil
  • Saturday, 10 May, 2025
    EU economy
    ECB’s Schnabel says higher prices from tariffs could limit rate cuts

    Eurozone central banker warns splurge on defence spending and impact of tariffs risk feeding inflation

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  • Thursday, 8 May, 2025
    News in-depthGerman economy
    Germany’s Mittelstand arms itself for a new era

    Country’s small and medium-sized businesses are pivoting to defence amid European rearmament

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  • Friday, 2 May, 2025
    Eurozone inflation
    Eurozone inflation stays above expectations at 2.2%

    April figure also shows rise in core metric, as region prepare for impact of Trump’s tariffs

  • Wednesday, 30 April, 2025
    Eurozone economy grows 0.4% in first quarter ahead of Trump’s tariffs

    Figure for period before US president announced sweeping levies surpasses expectations

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