Friedrich Merz, the man favored to be Germany’s next chancellor after elections on Sunday, is a conservative businessman who has never been a government minister and was forced out of party leadership years ago for challenging Angela Merkel. As a Christian Democrat and committed trans-Atlanticist, he has been considered a potentially better match for President…
Reconstruction efforts in Gaza will require more than $50bn after 15 months of Israel’s devastating war, according to a new assessment by the United Nations, the European Union and the World Bank. The figures come as Arab countries continue to scramble to find a viable recovery plan as an alternative to the mass displacement of…
Apps that have not complied with the trader requirement in the European Union have been removed from the App Store, Apple informed developers today. The apps that have been removed will not be allowed back in the App Store until trader status is provided and verified by Apple. Disclosing trader status is a requirement of…
PARIS (AP) — French President Emmanuel Macron painted a veneer of European unity by inviting a small number of handpicked European leaders to the Élysée Palace, while the Trump administration sidelined the continent by moving ahead with direct negotiations on Tuesday with Russia on the war in Ukraine. But beneath the diplomatic pageantry, cracks in…
For years, European leaders have fretted about reducing their dependence on a wayward United States. On Monday, at a hastily arranged meeting in Paris, the hand-wringing gave way to harried acceptance of a new world in which Europe’s most powerful ally has begun acting more like an adversary. President Trump’s plan to negotiate a peace…
European leaders have said they are ready to give Ukraine security guarantees and warned that it would be dangerous for Kyiv to agree to a ceasefire without a negotiated peace agreement in place with Moscow, officials said. The offer of a European security commitment to Ukraine was made at a meeting in Paris on Monday,…
Malaysia’s trade minister has reaffirmed his country’s commitment to strengthening investment ties with Hong Kong amid worries that the US could impose further punitive measures targeting the city and mainland China. Tengku Zafrul Aziz, Malaysia’s minister for investment, trade and industry, said on Monday that Asean would continue to engage with the United States while…
Malaysia’s trade minister has reaffirmed his country’s commitment to strengthening investment ties with Hong Kong amid worries that the US could impose further punitive measures targeting the city and mainland China. Tengku Zafrul Aziz, Malaysia’s minister for investment, trade and industry, said on Monday that Asean would continue to engage with the United States while…
(Bloomberg) — Asian stocks trimmed gains as an AI-fueled rally in Chinese technology shares faded and investors remained cautious due to tensions between the US and European Union over tariffs and the war in Ukraine. Most Read from Bloomberg A gauge of Asian shares rose 0.3%, after earlier reaching the highest level since November, while…
Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Sunday offered British troops to help guarantee Ukraine’s security as part of any peace deal, as he and other European leaders rushed to coordinate a response to President Trump’s opening of talks with Russia about ending the war in Ukraine. In an article published in The Daily Telegraph on Sunday,…