Friedrich Merz, the conservative front-runner in the race to be Germany’s next chancellor, warned domestic companies against making bigger investments in China. “The decision to invest in China is a decision with great risk,” Merz said at a foreign policy event in Berlin Thursday. “If you take this risk, do it in such a way…
In a virtual speech broadcast to world leaders at Davos, US President Donald Trump today put forward several pledges for his second term, including promises to battle government spending, “economic chaos” and increased public borrowing. He also spoke about trade, and said he would use tariffs to reshore manufacturing in America – adding that levies…
Welcome to the Brussels Edition, Bloomberg’s daily briefing on what matters most in the heart of the European Union. Now that European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has laid out her ambitious restructuring of the EU executive arm, she must overcome the challenge of parliamentary hearings in the coming weeks. One that might give…