If there is one takeaway from this assassination, it is that conservatives must get up from their armchairs and stop being nice. You cannot talk to those who hate you.
Like a rudderless ship, France is sailing straight for the same cliffs that broke the Greek economy 15 years ago. Will President Macron meet his Waterloo in the hallowed hallways of the IMF?
Facing a major budget gap, Bucharest must choose: fix the deficit or launch a broader economic rescue. So far, Prime Minister Bolojan has shown little leadership to do either.
Slovakia faces the same budget dilemma as Germany. Whether Prime Minister Fico will match Chancellor Merz’s bold move to announce an end to the welfare state remains to be seen.
The U.S. president is moving to take control of the Fed board—a power grab that could spell economic disaster for both the U.S. and Europe.
Chancellor Merz has conceded that Germany can no longer sustain its expansive welfare state—a fiscal surrender to economic reality that other nations may soon be forced to replicate.
Doomsday reports on Hungary’s economy are everywhere—but most read more like wishful thinking than real analysis.
Despite widespread predictions, Russia’s economy hasn’t buckled under sanctions—but cracks are starting to show.
As some countries ramp up social benefits to strengthen emerging welfare states, others are scaling back in a bid to rein in systems that have grown beyond what their tax bases can sustain.
EU’s fiscal documents are written to pay a token gesture to openness while in reality serving as declarations of policy intent.
As warnings of a Wall Street ‘correction’ grow louder, some European countries risk following suit. Others are more resilient.
Eurostat says inflation looks calm—but beneath the surface, a worrying split is emerging. Polarized inflation poses a serious challenge for the ECB and an increasingly hands-on Brussels.
