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Published on 29/08/2025 – 12:28 GMT+2 Leading banks in the UK saw their share prices hit hard as news of a proposed new bank tax emerged. NatWest share prices lost more than 4.7% nearing midday in Europe, Lloyds saw a dip of 4.5%, and Barclays lost 3.7%. This dragged down the benchmark stock index in London; the FTSE 100 was down by nearly 0.4% at time of reporting. “NatWest, Lloyds and Barclays were the FTSE 100’s biggest fallers on Friday morning as investors wondered if the era of bumper profits, dividends and buybacks is now under threat,” Russ Mould, investment…
Published on 29/08/2025 – 15:57 GMT+2 Consumer price indexes in Spain, France and Italy came in 0.1% below expectations in August, signalling price stability in the eurozone, according to the latest inflation figures. In Germany, the bloc’s biggest economy, inflation was only slightly higher than anticipated in July. German prices increased by 2.2% in July from 2% in June year-on-year. Food prices were up, but energy costs drove the figure slightly down. Prices increased by 0.1%, compared to the previous month, according to the Federal Statistical Office. In France, EU-harmonised inflation was modest, 0.8% year-on-year in August. This was driven…
By Euronews Published on 31/08/2025 – 21:12 GMT+2 The Israeli military claimed on Sunday it killed a longtime spokesperson for Hamas’ armed wing. Israeli Defense Minister Israel Katz identified the spokesperson as Abu Obeida, who was reportedly killed over the weekend. There was no immediate comments from Hamas on the claim. Obeida’s last statement was issued on Friday, when Israel declared Gaza a combat zone after launching its expanded offensive, which was announced earlier this month and drew international condemnation. The statement said militants would do their best to protect living hostages, but warned that they would be in areas of…
Published on 29/08/2025 – 18:21 GMT+2 A fervent defender of a rules-based trading order, the EU has been under attack since its deal with the US, accused of betraying its commitments to the WTO and to multilateralism. But is that really the case? At first glance, the 21 August deal grossly violates WTO rules: the US President, has unilaterally demanded preferential tariffs for US imports to the EU that breach the Most-Favoured-Nation (MFN) principle. “From the perspective of WTO rules, the deal is discriminatory. We have fairly clear rules, namely the MFN principle: any tariff advantage granted to one member…
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Published on 01/09/2025 – 6:52 GMT+2 •Updated 11:14 More than 800 people were killed and 2,500 injured after a magnitude 6.0 earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan late on Sunday, the Taliban has said. Numerous villages were destroyed as a result of the natural disaster, which affected an area close to the border with Pakistan. The earthquake occurred at 11:47 pm local time on Sunday, around 27 kilometres northeast of the city of Jalalabad in Nangarhar province, according to the US Geological Survey. Another 4.5 magnitude quake hit the same area around 20 minutes later. The Kunar Disaster Management Authority said the…
Europe is sitting on a paradox. On the one hand, the continent faces enormous investment needs—from financing the green transition and upgrading infrastructure to supporting innovation and competitiveness against global rivals. On the other hand, European households hold trillions of euros in savings, much of it sitting passively in bank deposits that yield little and do very little to power growth. A new Bruegel working paper, Plugging Europe’s Investment Gap: Understanding the Potential of Leveraging Institutional Investors, examines this mismatch through the lens of Europe’s institutional investors, namely insurance companies and pension funds, also known as ICPFs. These institutions sit…
“We really don’t want to see a split between the parliamentary Green Party and the extra-parliamentary Green Party, that would make no sense at all,” they added. “I don’t think anyone is really hoping that that’s the outcome of this. I’m pretty sure the party will pull together.” What a difference a year makes It was all very different just 12 months ago. Cheerful Greens quadrupled their number of MPs to four in the 2024 general election, their most successful result ever. “The mood is entirely jubilant,” Polanski told POLITICO at last fall’s party conference. By this summer, the leadership contest…
By Euronews Published on 01/09/2025 – 12:15 GMT+2 Yemen’s Houthi rebels arrested at least 11 United Nations staffers on Sunday in the capital Sanaa and the western city of Hodeidah, two of the Iran-backed group’s strongholds, the UN envoy to the country said. The Iran-backed Houthis have launched a wave of arrests after the prime minister and other senior members of government were killed in Israeli strikes on Thursday. “I condemn the new wave of arbitrary arrests of UN staff members made in Sanaa and Hodeidah by (the Houthis) as well as the break-in at UN premises and the seizure of…
Leading European stock markets were propped up by good corporate news on Monday, as investors across the world are awaiting more news on the US tariffs, freshly knocked down by a US appeals court. Monday is Labor Day in the US, so Wall Street remains closed after the weekend. Right after midday in Europe, the London FTSE 100 was up by more than 0.2%, the DAX in Frankfurt gained 0.37%, and the CAC 40 in Paris was also rising by a modest 0.2%, following the news that France’s manufacturing sector started expanding in August, the first time since January 2023.…