BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders agree on top officials who will be the face of trading bloc in coming years, EU presidency says.
Rob Trewhella’s biggest worry ahead of his 68th birthday in August is that there will come a time when he is no longer able to work.
The “nein”, “non” or just a plain old “no way” has already been uttered. As France prepares for its most significant election in at least a decade, with its leading parties committed to increasing the government’s already lavish spending, Christian Lindner, the German finance minister, has made one point clear: France is not going to get a bailout, and certainly not from its close neighbours.
With the countdown to the general election now in its final week, Labour has continued to do little to answer questions or quell concerns about its tax plans should it win power.
Jordan Bardella, the fresh-faced 28-year-old who could be the first French prime minister for Marine Le Pen’s hard-Right National Rally party, has designs on EU cash.
The Netherlands is expected to pay billions of pounds in compensation to taxpayers after a divisive levy on investments and second homes was shot down by the Dutch Supreme Court.
We are at a crossroads as a nation. Do we want five more years of chaos and decline or stability and change that can build a brighter future? That is what is on the ballot paper at this general election and it is the choice Telegraph readers will have to make on Thursday.
BEIJING (Reuters) -China's manufacturing activity fell for a second month in June while services activity slipped to a five-month low, an official survey showed on Sunday, keeping alive calls for further stimulus as the economy struggles to get back on its feet. The National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) purchasing managers' index (PMI), at 49.5 in June, was unchanged from May, below the 50-mark separating growth from contraction and in line with a median forecast of 49.5 in a Reuters poll. "Actual industrial activity should be stronger than the data suggests as our observation is that the official PMI fails to fully capture the current export momentum, which has been the major economic driver this year," said Xu Tianchen, senior economist at the Economist Intelligence Unit.
Older folk in the Square Mile bemoan the demise of the liquid lunch. Hammering out the terms of a deal over a glass (or three) of Chateauneuf du Pape just isn’t how it’s done anymore. Earlier this month the firm submitted a licensing application to the City of London Corporation ‘to permit the sale of alcohol on the premises’ at its private banking office on the Embankment.
The European Central Bank is gaining confidence in expectations inflation will fall back to its 2% target next year and that it can look through bumps in the data flow in the coming months, ECB policymaker Francois Villeroy de Galhau said on Friday. The ECB began easing interest rates with a first rate cut in five years this month and policymakers have said the pace of further cuts will depend on the incoming flow of inflation data. Speaking at a conference at the French central bank, which he also heads, Villeroy said that inherently noisy inflation data created a risk of over-reacting to volatile news, especially for the rest of the year.
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Britain’s economy expanded faster than first thought at the start of the year, new figures show, prompting Rishi Sunak to hail “the fastest growth in the G7”.
Gordon Brown’s reforms to CGT encouraged stock market speculators and private equity asset strippers, while it was the Thatcher government that brought rates into line with income tax.
The flat reading in the personal consumption expenditures(PCE) price index last month followed an unrevised 0.3% gain inApril, the Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysissaid on Friday. In the 12 months through May, the PCE priceindex increased 2.6% after advancing 2.7% in April. Economists polled by Reuters had forecast the PCE priceindex unchanged on the month and rising 2.6% year-on-year.
Sir Keir Starmer has appeared on Bangladeshi TV after he was embroiled in a row with the community over his comments on dealing with illegal migrants from that country.
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Germany's three-way coalition has been battling for months to resolve differences over next year's budget. Chancellor Olaf Scholz of the Social Democrats (SPD), Economy Minister Robert Habeck of the Greens and Finance Minister Christian Lindner of the Free Democrats (FDP) aim to agree at least an outline next week. Total spending plans for 2025 submitted by individual ministries exceeded the limit by around 20 billion euros ($21 billion).
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