Economics

Every time you pay with a credit card, a small fee travels invisibly behind the scenes from the shop’s bank to yours. That fee is…

The European Parliament and the Council of the European Union have reached a provisional agreement on the new European Social Fund Plus (ESF+). Within the…

In the first ten months of 2025, Made in Italy exports increased by 3.5 per cent, signalling resilience in an increasingly uncertain global environment. The…

On Wednesday, Europe’s political heavyweights gathered in Antwerp alongside some of the continent’s most influential industrial leaders.  Officially, the meeting was a preparatory moment ahead…

A new Italian levy on low-value parcels arriving from outside the EU is fast becoming a test case for the limits of unilateral action in…

More than 1,400 amendments have been tabled on the EU’s digital euro legislation, a striking sign of how far lawmakers remain from a political compromise…

“The mother of all deals.” That’s how the free trade agreement between the European Union and India is being described. Nearly two decades after talks…

The question of how far Europe can tolerate Donald Trump is no longer theoretical. With a single post on Truth Social, the U.S. president has…

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen welcomed her fellow EU leaders on Wednesday for an informal summit heavy with security and defence talk. 

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy has been convicted of passive corruption, concealment of embezzled public funds, illegal campaign financing and conspiracy in connection with suspicions…

A stark assessment delivered by business and policy voices, warned that without bold reform the EU risks drifting into economic irrelevance.

Mario Draghi is back with a warning: Europe is running out of time, and Extraordinary times require extraordinary actions.