For two years speculation abounds over the candidacy of Jens Weidmann to succeed Mario Draghi at the helm of the European Central Bank. Weidmann has undermined Draghi Weidmann can hardly contain his ambition,…
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Rome and Brussels are locked in a chicken game over the budget. The pressure is on Italy, as the cost of refinancing its sovereign debt…
There is a conviction that migration management begins and often ends with border control. That is an appealing and soothing idea. The fear of migration…
The Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte committed to a “serious, rigorous, and courageous” 2019 budget on Wednesday, as Rome remains in a collision course with Brussels. To…
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled on Friday that banks may regard capital held against customer deposits as part of their overall reserves. Under…
Italy is renewing its threat to block the Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) with Canada. Italy’s agriculture minister Gian Marco Centinaio said on Thursday…
Ambassador Nataliya Apostolova is a Bulgarian career-diplomat, serving as the EU’s Ambassador to Kosovo for the last two years. After leading Bulgaria’s accession negotiations, the European Commission…