Mario Draghi

French Economy Minister Roland Lescure is no stranger to "roadshows," having spent many years in the banking sector

These figures rose by 3.9 and 7.5 percentage points respectively between September 2025 and January 2026, but by only 0.6 and 2.4 points in the following six months

President Donald Trump has long tried to portray himself as something of a strongman on China, though his tough talk and trade wars are often undercut by his remarkably accommodating nature toward Xi Jinping

The Charlemagne Prize honors those who advance European unity

Competing objectives: Europe’s competition czar explains its balancing-act on merger rules

Reducing Europe's dependencies on countries outside the bloc has gained greater urgency because of geopolitical shocks, intensified global competition and an economy that lags behind bigger powers

While President Donald Trump’s withering description of Europe last month as a "decaying" region was unwelcome, it may be what finally prompts them to take much-needed action

Lucas Guttenberg is the director of the Europe program at Bertelsmann Stiftung

Macron repeated his call for EU-wide mutualized loans in order to raise hundreds of billions of euros needed for industrial investment

The World Economic Forum has always relied on a political presence to bring relevance to its annual meeting, but never has it been hijacked so comprehensively by one man

Trump dressed in a suit and red tie walks through a blue-curtained doorway

The president’s arrival at the World Economic Forum in the Swiss mountain resort was delayed by several hours because of an electrical fault on the jet

The world’s two biggest climate polluters are racing in opposite directions: The U.S. is chasing fossil fuels while China entrenches its dominance over clean energy

Over the past three decades, Europe has built a political and regulatory order that external powers can no longer bypass by dealing with 27 national governments individually

French President Emmanuel Macron and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni have joined forces in recent weeks to call for the opening of diplomatic channels to Russian leader Vladimir Putin and his inner circle, even as White House peace talks falter