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Donald Trump said he will hit European countries with fresh tariffs of 10% from next month until they agree to support his ambition to acquire Greenland.  The US president said the new levies would apply to France, Germany, the UK, the Netherlands, Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland, and would rise to 25% in June.  “We […]

Passengers whose flight is cancelled must receive a full refund including any agency fees charged by a third-party agency, the EU’s top court has ruled. In a ruling on Thursday, judges at the Luxembourg-based European Court of Justice (ECJ) also said an airline could not claim it was unaware of the commission fee as a […]

European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde said Bulgaria joining the euro area on Thursday is a testament to Europe’s ability to collaborate and defy international headwinds. “The euro is a powerful symbol of what Europe can achieve when we work together, and of the shared values and collective strength that we can leverage to confront […]

The Trump administration on Tuesday imposed visa sanctions on former European Union Commissioner Thierry Breton and four other people for trying to make American tech companies police political speech on their platforms. “For far too long, ideologues in Europe have led organized efforts to coerce American platforms to punish American viewpoints they oppose,” Secretary of […]

Ryanair has been fined nearly €256 million by Italy’s antitrust watchdog for allegedly using an “abusive strategy” to thwart customers who booked through travel agencies. The Rome-based competition authority said Europe’s most popular airline imposed barriers such as additional facial verification on those passengers, blocked certain agency bookings by disabling payments and deleting accounts, and […]

President Donald Trump’s top trade negotiator critiqued the practices of two key US partners, the European Union and India, signalling that contentious talks are set to spill into the new year. US Trade Representative Jamieson Greer said he discussed EU regulation of American tech companies on Thursday with the bloc’s trade commissioner, Maros Sefcovic, and […]

Luxembourg: Understanding social fractures in order to rethink the economy In Luxembourg, the housing crisis, economic inequalities, and rising poverty are raising questions about how the economy is organized. A cross-disciplinary analysis shows how to rethink land use, taxation, and the distribution of wealth.

The EU has agreed measures to boost investment by private individuals in stocks and bonds in the bloc, as part of long-standing efforts to strengthen the wider economy by encouraging retail investment. The retail investment push is part of the EU’s decade-long Capital Markets Union, designed to support the free movement of capital across the […]

Luxembourg Prime Minister Luc Frieden has said that in his view there are two realistic options on the table for the future financing of Ukraine as EU leaders meet in Brussels on Thursday. At a doorstop with media as he entered the summit, Frieden said that it was important to resolve the issue of financing. […]