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Hello, this is Mared Gwyn holding the newsletter pen in Brussels. This morning: Eurozone finance ministers gather amid mounting economic pressures, and EU ambassadors make another push to break the Russia sanctions deadlock. Economic jitters: Finance ministers from eurozone countries gather in Dublin, Ireland, today, against a fraught backdrop of mounting energy costs, rising inflation and weak growth. Painful at the pump: Oil prices have surged rapidly in recent days, driven by a reduction in global supplies and exacerbated by recent attacks on Saudi Arabia’s East-West pipeline, which have been attributed to the Iran-backed Houthi rebels. European leaders are rushing…
Published on 18/09/2026 – 8:15 GMT+2 US President Donald Trump on Thursday said there had been “major progress” towards the creation of a US military base in Poland as he hailed what he described as a “historic step” in relations with Warsaw. “Thanks to the bold leadership of my friend, Karol Nawrocki, President of Poland, major progress is being made toward establishing a U.S. Army base in Poland,” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social Account. “If this happens, the location will be announced very soon. This will be a historic step for our Great U.S./Polish Alliance,” he…
Published on 18/09/2026 – 7:54 GMT+2 Japan’s benchmark Nikkei 225 gained 1.9% to 65,332.57 after the Bank of Japan raised the benchmark interest rate to 1.25% from 1.0%, a 31-year high. The move had been widely priced in, coming after the Federal Reserve also raised its key rate this week. Pressures have been coming from the US for Japan to raise rates because of concerns about the weakening yen. The nations intervened together recently to prop up the yen. But the efforts haven’t had a big impact. In currency trading, the US dollar rose to 157.11 Japanese yen from 155.95…
With the start of every football season, one of the most aggressive digital filtering mechanisms in Europe also comes back. Backed by court rulings, LaLiga, the employers’ association chaired by Javier Tebas, orders Spanish operators to block in real time hundreds of IP addresses allegedly linked to the illegal broadcasting of matches. The initial aim is to curb piracy, but the real effect is another: the internet does not work with dedicated servers for each website, so when an IP is cut off it drags down with it a whole range of services that have nothing to do with football.…
There’s no doubt about it, it’s been a tough year for the tourism industry – especially in the Middle East, where regional conflict and the knock-on effects have disrupted travel. Despite a record-breaking year for global tourism in 2025, the geopolitical situation has impacted travel to the Middle East and Gulf in 2026, with visitor numbers, air capacity and hospitality bookings all taking a significant hit. While much of the conversation on the sidelines at Arabian Travel Market (ATM) in Dubai centred on this year’s major disruptions, there were also signs of industry recovery. Unveiled this week, the ATM Travel…
Ein teures Symbol der Abhängigkeit: In Texas nimmt Verteidigungsminister Boris Pistorius den ersten F-35-Kampfjet für die Bundeswehr entgegen. Die Tarnkappenflieger sichern die nukleare Teilhabe Deutschlands, offenbaren aber zugleich das Scheitern europäischer Rüstungsprojekte. Rixa Fürsen erklärt, warum Europa diese technologische Lücke derzeit nicht aus eigener Kraft schließen kann. Nach dem tödlichen Angriff auf einen Zugbegleiter im Februar debattiert die Politik über Zugangskontrollen an Bahnhöfen und schärfere Strafen für Angriffe auf Zugpersonal. Cedric Looks beleuchtet die Pläne von Verkehrsminister Steffen Bilger und Justizministerin Stefanie Hubig. Im 200-Sekunden-Interview erklärt die stellvertretende FDP-Bundesvorsitzende Svenja Hahn vor den Wahlen in Berlin und Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, wie ihre…
With Canada, the European Union has opened the door to a new way for the European project to affiliate with third countries that aren’t even on its own continent. The rest of the world will be watching closely. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney spearheaded the idea of an alliance of middle powers in his seminal speech in Davos earlier this year. A few months later, Canada might provide the blueprint for how the EU integrates third countries. On Wednesday, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen invited Canada to become “the first associate member of the European Union,” proposing an…
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Published on 18/09/2026 – 7:14 GMT+2 The Bank of Japan has been trying to normalise monetary policy after decades of keeping interest rates near or below zero to try to encourage more borrowing and spending to counter deflation and pull Japan’s economy out of the doldrums. Inflationary pressures are rising because of the war in Iran, which has sent oil prices soaring in recent months. That is a big negative for resource-poor Japan, which virtually imports all its oil. The rate increase, coming at the end of the two-day monetary policy board meeting, was expected, widely figured into recent global…
Every new football season also brings back one of the most aggressive digital filtering mechanisms in Europe. Backed by court rulings, LaLiga, the league body headed by Javier Tebas, orders Spanish operators to block in real time hundreds of IP addresses supposedly linked to the illegal broadcasting of matches. The original aim is to curb piracy, but the real effect is another: the internet does not work with dedicated servers for each website, so when an IP is cut off, a whole series of services that have nothing to do with football are dragged down with it. In other words,…