Former chancellor Angela Merkel has called for Germany to relax its “debt brake”, in a sign of the growing political pressure to overhaul a borrowing cap that many economists say is too inflexible.

Africa leads decline but cases must fall faster to meet target of ending designation of Aids as public health threat by 2030 ...

Revenues leapt to $525mn in first half of 2024 before chief Pavel Durov was detained over alleged criminality on platform ...

The editorial board’s November 17 article concluded the “New titans of Wall Street” series, highlighting the risks of trading ...

China’s national technology champion Huawei is poised to launch its first flagship phone that can run its own apps on a fully homegrown operating system, in the latest sign of how technology is ...

Also in today’s newsletter, Huawei to launch phone with homegrown software, and TotalEnergies suspends fresh investment in ...

The opportunity to drop the long-running and reprehensible freeze on thresholds would be another huge advantage. None of this is easy or it would have been done long ago, but necessity is the mother ...

Former top investment officer at Franklin Templeton’s Western Asset Management is subject of criminal and civil cases ...

Today, the EU’s outgoing rule of law tsar tells our competition correspondent that Brussels mustn’t “nanny” EU citizens and ...

That sort of maths only holds if UniCredit’s shareholders support Orcel’s strategy. Given the uncertainty around his plans, ...

The talks had earlier almost collapsed after a group of about 80 countries vulnerable to climate change walked out of a ...

Volkswagen has written down the majority of its 21 per cent stake in Northvolt over the past year ahead of the Swedish ...