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"The European Union's statistics office, Eurostat, said trade between the 27-country bloc and the rest of the world was down across the board in the first quarter of last year because of the pandemic.
The arrest and recent prison sentencing of anti-Kremlin activist Alexei Navalny continues to drive a wedge between Russia and Western Europe, following recent tit-for-tat sanctions in the form of travel bans against each side's intelligence and diplo
Moscow's pivot to Asia to build Greater Eurasia has an air of historical inevitability that has the US and EU on edge
Predictions of the break-up of the UK may be reaching a crescendo, but they are scarcely new.
Scotland's leader said Sunday that she intends to hold a "legal referendum" on independence from the U.K. if she wins Scottish elections scheduled for May.
One of the many casualties of Brexit, or Britain's decision to leave the European Union (EU), is a galvanization of the nationalist movement in Scotland. The Scottish National Party (SNP) and its leader, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, have grown i
Later this year, the ECB will meet for a grand strategy review. Expected to be one of the most consequential policy reviews for years to come, the central bank could opt for changes to its inflation target (some doves have proposed following in the f
In contrast to the EU, the US Congress passed the Uyghur Human Rights Policy Act in June 2019, and on September 22, 2020, the US House of Representatives passed the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act.
Brexit leader Nigel Farage has advised exercising caution after the announcement that Boris Johnson and the EU had made an 11th-hour post-Brexit trade deal, until the details of the agreement are revealed...
BORIS Johnson hailed the "immense moment" Britain has taken back control of our destiny today as he finally sealed a Brexit deal with the EU.
Twenty-five years ago, on December 15, 1995, the fifteen heads of state and government of the then EU decided at a council meeting in Madrid to name the future common currency the "euro" and to introduce it from January 1, 1999, initially as a book c
The ECB's "war on cash" has been raging for years.
Despite formally leaving the EU in January, the UK remains within the bloc's economic and social structures but is set to withdraw entirely at the end of December.
Despite formally leaving the EU in January, the UK remains within the bloc's economic and social structures but is set to withdraw entirely at the end of December.
MERCUTIO: I am hurt. A plague o' both your houses! I am sped. Is he gone, and hath nothing?
Update (1300ET): With little to no progress being made, Boris Johnson says there is a "strong possibility" that a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU probably won't happen.
Over the summer while the U.S. was mired in the worst kind of color revolution with race riots, economic shutdowns and the worst kind of divisive politics, the European Union was celebrating its great achievement.
The ECB announced that in order to arrest Europe's economic double dip, it will expand its PEPP (pandemic emergency purchase programme) QE by €500BN (as expected), will extend the duration of the PEPP through March 2022 (it was expected to end 2021
"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face--for ever." So said Orwell in 1984. Nowadays one could add or conflate it with "Imagine a boot kicking a can--for ever."
Update (1300ET): With little to no progress being made, Boris Johnson says there is a "strong possibility" that a post-Brexit trade deal with the EU probably won't happen.
Last March, the ECB's then-brand new boss Christine Lagarde sparked a mini crisis when quipped that it was not the job of the European Central Bank to narrow the gap in borrowing costs between the eurozone's stronger and weaker members.
Germany has mediated a way through the blocked 1.8 trillion euros ($2.18 trillion)...
Former Pfizer vice president and scientific director Dr. Michael Yeadon and German lung specialist and parliamentarian Dr. Wolfgang Wodarg have filed an urgent application with the European Medicine Agency calling for the immediate suspension of all
Of all the innovations in central banking this year, few are as intriguing as Bank of Japan's special bonus interest rate to regional banks that cut costs, merge or lend for sustainable development.
There comes a point where negotiation becomes surrender. Those actively undermining you will always demand more than their right.
Over 60 protesters were arrested in anti-lockdown demonstrations on Saturday, as activists clashed with police who sought to break it up. If only it was a BLM demonstration.
PIERS MORGAN: Butt out of Brexit, Mr Biden – you're not even President yet, and when your mate Barack tried to bully us into staying in Europe, furious Brits showed him at the ballot box where he could stick his threat
The European ruling class is salivating over the prospects of a Harris/Biden presidency.
Update (0925ET): Just minutes after we posted this, Michael Barnier, the EU's top Brexit negotiator, announced that one of his team members had tested positive for COVID-19.