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The history of economic sanctions is one of “disappointment,” given they often fail, writes Nicholas Mulder in his book The Economic Weapon. The...
Gene Simmons is one of the shrewdest marketing minds ever to wear face paint and lick a bass guitar. The KISS co-founder and his bandmates pioneered...
America’s youngest-ever elected president, John F Kennedy, put civic duty at the heart of his 1961 call to “ask what you can do for your...
Zimbabwe has a painful relationship with money. At the height of hyperinflation in 2008, the African economy’s billion- and trillion-dollar...
It’s the end of an era for Swiss solar-panel maker Meyer Burger Technology AG, whose shareholders last week backed a $220.5 million fundraising to...
The sentencing of cryptocurrency wunderkind turned convicted fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried to 25 years in jail along with the forfeiture of more than...
Germany, the sick man of Europe, is about to end a quarter it would rather forget. The first three months of 2024 probably marked its second straight...
“As long as it takes.” That was the pledge last week by European Union leaders on supporting Ukraine as Vladimir Putin embarks on a fifth...
With Vladimir Putin set for a fifth term as Russian president and Donald Trump possibly on track for a second win in the US, Europe needs a mindset...
The bigger they are, the harder they lobby. Europe’s largest tech firm, chipmaking-machine supplier ASML Holding NV, has sent the Dutch government...
On Feb. 23, Austrian central banker Robert Holzmann issued a warning that it was “too early” to talk about interest-rate cuts in the euro zone....
A new form of digital money is going viral, capturing tens of millions of users, billions of transactions and the attention of global central banks....
This weekend is the mother of all tentpole events for the gambling industry: the Super Bowl. Sports betting has boomed since the Supreme Court...
Are white-collar workers — think analysts, coders and even the odd opinion columnist — going the way of the medieval scribe? Finance and...
If corporate Paris is a moveable feast, Czech billionaire Daniel Kretinsky is a regular diner. The Francophile investor known for his tough...
The so-called “siege of Paris,” which has seen angry farmers block highways around the French capital, is a far cry from the violent “Gilets...
Five months ahead of European parliamentary elections, the far right’s long march into mainstream politics has hit the buffers in Germany. More than...
The “Birkenstock spread” might sound like an embarrassing wardrobe malfunction. But it’s one way of seeing how two European footwear companies...
European nations more famous for long holidays and plentiful healthcare than waging wars have broken a lot of taboos since the Russian invasion of...
The regulatory approval of an exchange-traded fund isn’t supposed to be a mass-media event worthy of Wrestlemania. Yet here we are. The hype around...
Last week, America’s allies put up a united front against the Houthis in the Red Sea. Well — not quite. France, which has the European Union’s...
The most obvious thing Paris has to get right this year is the Olympics. If the immense hurdles of security, logistics, crammed metros and overpriced...
It’s 15 years since Sweden’s Spotify Technology SA, co-founded by Daniel Ek, launched its music streaming service as a legal all-you-can-eat...
Hungarian strongman leader Viktor Orban is said to be a fan of Charles De Gaulle. But unlike the Frenchman’s 1960s European boycott that paralyzed...
For Europeans worried about decline in a time of war and economic slowdown, last week’s OECD international education rankings didn’t help. French...
“BUY BTC.” The logo stamped on this week’s leaked version of the Grand Theft Auto VI trailer, depicting a faux glamorous world of speedboats,...
When I saw songwriter and producer Grimes perform live a decade ago, there was plenty of onstage tech equipment but clearly in the service of human...
All is not well in the land of ASML Holding NV, Europe’s most valuable tech firm. Dutch snap parliamentary elections on Wednesday will mark the end...
Portugal (population: 10 million) has enjoyed a miracle recovery since the dark days of its 2011 euro-crisis bailout. Sun, sea and tax breaks have...
After failing to persuade chipmaker ARM Holdings Plc to float on the London Stock Exchange, Rishi Sunak’s government will no doubt be eager to...
Justice has been served – and swiftly, too. A jury found fallen crypto mogul Sam Bankman-Fried guilty of seven counts of fraud and conspiracy after...
After fruitlessly pleading with the Global South to see things his way on Ukraine, Emmanuel Macron has spent the past week in the Middle East...
A rising tide lifts all boats, but only when it goes out do you see who’s been swimming naked, as Warren Buffett famously said. So it is for the...
Bon Jovi fans may have been aghast at seeing guitar hero Richie Sambora dressed as a giant baked potato on The Masked Singer TV show in February,...
As lawyers and prosecutors rake over the ashes of Sam Bankman-Fried’s fallen FTX cryptocurrency empire, another reckoning for digital currencies is...
Pro-European forces have caught a break where they might have least expected it. Poland — whose eight years of euro-skeptic, conservative rule under...
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