LONDON — After almost two years in power, Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is more popular and influential than ever, not only in Italy but also across the European Union.

LONDON — After reaching its highest level in decades in mid-2022, inflation in the United States and the eurozone fell sharply over the second half of last year.

LONDON — Headline inflation is falling fast in the United States and the eurozone, following a succession of sharp interest-rate hikes by the US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank (ECB).

 LONDON — Last November, the European Commission proposed a radical reform of the European Union’s Stability and Growth Pact.

LONDON — Inflation’s return from the dead has brought the era of easy monetary policy to an end. The US Federal Reserve (Fed), the European Central Bank (ECB), and others are planning to shrink their balance sheets, but this is a process that will most likely unfold very slowly.

LONDON — Does Silicon Valley Bank’s collapse reveal a fundamental weakness in the current financial-stability framework, or does it merely point to a localised failure of supervision?By jeopardising many prominent, high-growth companies in the tech sector, the bank’s failure cert

LONDON  —  The rise of Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and her Fratelli d’Italia (“Brothers of Italy”), a party with roots in Mussolini’s Fascist movement, has raised more than a few concerns.

 ROME  —  Italy might soon be led, for the first time in its postwar history, by a party with roots in the detritus of Mussolini’s Fascist movement.

LONDON — This year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow has brought a marked shift in focus from the responsibilities of governments to the power of the private sector.