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    • Saturday, 30 September, 2023
      Northern Ireland
      New EU trade rules could snarl N Ireland supply chains, companies warn

      Windsor framework was meant to reduce paperwork but businesses are worried ahead of rules coming into effect on Sunday

      A ferry arrives at the Port of Larne in County Antrim
    • Friday, 29 September, 2023
      Eurozone inflation
      Eurozone inflation hits 2-year low as US price pressures ease

      Data helps steady bond markets and signals prospect of end to interest rate rises on both sides of Atlantic

      People shop for cheap clothes in Germany
    • Friday, 29 September, 2023
      Disrupted Times
      Investors welcome more signs of inflation easing in US and eurozone

      Also in this newsletter: Boost for UK economy, Washington braces for shutdown, science round-up

      Shopper in Paris
    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      Markets InsightCésar Pérez Ruiz
      From black to red zero in Germany? Don’t bank on it

      Berlin has tightened deficit discipline as ‘bond vigilantes’ return

      A container ship in Frankfurt harbour, Germany, near the European Central Bank
    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      Sovereign bonds
      European bond market hit by Italy’s plans for higher borrowing

      Yields reach highest level in a decade as investors’ deficits worries add fuel to sell-off

      Italian prime minister Giorgia Meloni
    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      Northern Ireland
      UK fined by European Court of Justice in precedent-setting case

      Higher than expected penalty by EU court highlights how bloc’s rules still apply due to N Ireland’s single market ties

      Small fishing boats and pleasure craft moored at Ballycastle marina in Northern Ireland
    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      Northvolt AB
      Northvolt to build battery gigafactory in Canada

      Swedish start-up to tap generous subsidies for its first such plant outside Europe

    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      German economy
      German inflation falls to two-year low

      Prices rise by 4.3 per cent in the year to September, boosting expectations of a slowdown in region-wide inflation

    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      Paolo Gentiloni
      Non-European companies need not fear the EU’s new carbon border tax

      The measure aims to promote green technologies worldwide

      A steaming coalfired power plant silhouetted against a sunset and reflected in water in front of it
    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      Free LunchMartin Sandbu
      Europe should worry but not panic over China Premium content

      Lack of nuance makes for bad policy

      A truck lifts a shipping container at the port in Duisburg, Germany
    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      Italian economy
      Italy raises budget deficit forecast amid mounting economic pressures

      Giorgia Meloni’s government aims to reach EU rule of 3% of gross domestic product in 2026

      Giorgia Meloni
    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      Carbon tax
      Business braced for red tape from EU carbon border tax

      Fears of unpredictable costs and bottlenecks when ‘adjustment mechanism’ enters trial phase on October 1

      Flag of EU
    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      French economy
      France looks at windfall levy to ‘take back control’ of energy prices

      President Emmanuel Macron signals plans for new law aimed at containing electricity prices

      Emmanuel Macron wearing an EDF hard hat
    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      Trade SecretsAlan Beattie
      A trade reprieve won’t fix the EU’s failures on electric vehicles

      Proposed anti-subsidy duties are an admission that European companies and governments have been slow to innovate

      An EV at the Munich motor show this month
    • Thursday, 28 September, 2023
      Industrial metals
      Steel traders raise alarm over imports by Tata Steel UK

      Companies warn they are unable to import benchmark steel product cheaply under current import quota scheme

    • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
      French economy
      France unveils modest spending cuts for next year

      Paris is moving slower than other EU capitals in curbing its budget deficit and public debt

      Finance minister Bruno Le Maire in Paris on Wednesday
    • Wednesday, 27 September, 2023
      InterviewTurkish economy
      Turkey’s finance minister says ‘challenging’ conditions will take time to turn around

      Mehmet Şimşek claims Erdoğan has thrown ‘support and commitment’ behind recent interest rate increases

      Mehmet Şimşek speaks to journalists
    • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
      Greek economy
      Greece to integrate irregular migrants amid labour shortage

      Government seeks to address lack of workers in agriculture, tourism and construction

      Rescued refugees and migrants stand aboard a boat at the town of Paleochora, southwestern Crete
    • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
      EU-China relations
      Foreign brands including Tesla to face scrutiny as part of EU probe into China car subsidies

      Valdis Dombrovskis claims ‘sufficient prima facie evidence’ to examine foreign electric-vehicle makers’ operations

      EU trade commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis at a news conference in Beijing, China on September 26 2023
    • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
      Europe Express
      Germany drops stricter energy savings requirements for houses Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: why Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska thinks the war in Ukraine should end

      Germany’s economy minister Robert Habeck
    • Tuesday, 26 September, 2023
      Industrial metals
      Glencore traded thousands of tonnes of Russian copper through Turkey

      Shipments via third countries obscure Europe’s true reliance on Russian commodities

      A worker inspects copper cathode and anode sheets in an electrolytic tank at the Uralelectromed copper refinery, Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Russia
    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      Oleg Deripaska
      Russia has proved resilient to western sanctions, says Deripaska

      Metals oligarch tells FT of his ‘surprise’ at performance of economy in wake of invasion of Ukraine

      Oleg Deripaska
    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      EU trade
      Germany leads push to delay electric vehicle tariffs between EU and UK

      Berlin and carmakers back UK call for three-year pause on requirement for batteries to be produced locally

      A BMW i4 electric car on display at a BMW showroom in Berlin
    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      EU-China relations
      China and EU agree export controls ‘mechanism’ to ease trade tensions

      Signal of willingness to engage as Brussels trade chief Valdis Dombrovskis warns two sides could ‘drift apart’

      EU trade chief Valdis Dombrovskis, left, and Chinese vice-premier He Lifeng shake hands
    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      LexGig economy
      Gig economy: blurred lines need to be recognised in new labour laws Premium content

      Italy has shown it is possible to give workers a measure of protection without destroying the platform model

      A Deliveroo rider on a motorbike in Madrid
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