Chancellor Merz may find it difficult to maintain the generous social welfare regime that Germans have benefitted from for decades.

Unless the current administration acts to reverse this ongoing period of easy-money fueled spending, deficits, and asset ...

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He stressed record defense spending as key to NATO ties, while clashing with the far right.German Chancellor Friedrich Merz ...

In Spain, it will exceed 120% of GDP, compared to 95% in 2019 (and compared to around 40% of GDP in 2005-2008). For their part, the public deficits of the main European countries will rise from ...

This Labour government was elected on a platform of change. Now it has to deliver that change. Not jam tomorrow but change ...

Public debt in the euro area stabilized at around 90% of GDP in 2024, with a slight increase projected in 2025 and 2026, after a significant decline between 2020 and 2023. The euro area public deficit ...

NATO members have agreed to spend 5% of GDP, they need some principles. These include cutting reliance on the US, integrating ...

India's economic and financial pundits and policy makers will have much to cheer about the affirmation made by NITI Ayog that ...

Jamie Dimon, chief executive of JPMorgan Chase, is the country’s leading commercial banker, and he has been outspoken about ...

California remained the world’s fourth-largest economy by a narrow margin as 2025 started.

Switzerland continues to benefit from strong fundamentals, highly credible institutions, and a skilled labor force, positioning it among the world’s most competitive, resilient, and innovative ...