It’s been a week in which there have been some mixed and undecided signals from the U.S. about the direction the Fed wants to take on interest rates. Does it stay put, cut, or, unexpectedly, raise? First came the price index data on personal consumption expenditures…

The celebration of the “strengthening” of the Russian Black Sea Fleet was short-lived: on May 7, in fact, 2 new units were launched at the Zelenodolsk shipyards in Tatarstan (on the Volga River, engaged since 1895 in building small warships for the Black…

In France, Macron is starting to get a little scared ahead of the upcoming European elections because the polls are not exactly optimal for the government area. Throughout this whole campaign for the European elections, which seems more like a way of the…

In Greece, a new rule by the Ministry of Navigation and Insular Policy requires the country’s ferries not to accept BEV (battery-powered) and PHEV (plug-in hybrid) electric cars with more than 40 percent charge on board. So when you disembark, you will have…

The conditions of finance have changed profoundly over the past 30 years. Markets, which were previously, historically, accustomed to certain returns, have been faced with a different reality, leading to different performance indicators. The graph of the…

All the mainstream media rushed to celebrate the great innovation of the G7: the $50 billion loan to Ukraine paid from the returns of Russian assets seized at the start of the war. A plan that is utterly fuzzy, unclear, and will require a great deal of technical…

The G7 was supposed to bring an outcome, albeit a result, on the burning issue of aid to Ukraine financed with seized Russian assets. And so it did. Already several hours before Thursday afternoon’s session devoted to Kiev head of government Volodymyr Zelensky…

On Sunday, June 16, French Economy Minister Bruno Le Maire was a guest on France Inter/franceinfo/Le Monde‘s “Questions politiques” program. Recall that Le Maire is a member of the Attal government, a political expression of President Macron. Although he…

How is the German economy doing? Bad, thank you. What are the expectations? What is the level of confidence toward the future? Very slowly improving, almost stationary. That is how one can sum up the value of two anticipatory indices published today by the…

The usual, boring ritual of opening the infringement procedure was staged today. special observation regime will be reserved for seven member states (Italy and France in the lead) for exceeding the 3% deficit/GDP and the debt/GDP rule of no more than 60%.…

Martin Arnold, a Financial Times correspondent from Frankfurt, reports how the ECB has warned players: whose Euro area countries that would have too much debt would have to reduce it through austerity?  The recipe is as unsuccessful as it is systematically…

The Azzurri, the Italian soccer team, lost by one-nil to a Spain team in great form even though, on the part of the Italian team, the difference in play was remarkable. However, Italy lost as it has always done in the last 30 years, it did so with an own…

According to a report in the Financial Times, credit agencies “mis-rated” more than $100 billion of commercial real estate debt (CRE) in an increasingly popular segment of the market. The rating assessment was done so well that real estate companies that…

Despite the conflict and sanctions, Russian banks are not suffering excessively. Sberbank will allocate 752 billion rubles, or about 7.94 billion euros, for dividend payments. based on 2023 results. The payments will be 33.3 rubles. per common or preferred…

Since the dissolution of the National Assembly on June 9, Manon Aubry has been busy in the media. The 30-year-old, who led the La France insoumise (LFI) list in the European elections, has had no time to savor her re-election in Strasbourg. Faced with the…

With one week to go before the elections that will determine everything from the economy to national cohesion to France’s place in Europe and the world, Elabe for BFMTV and La Tribune Dimanche highlights the intense reflection taking place in society. Today…

A week before France’s early general elections, Olaf Scholz said he was “concerned” about the prospect of a victory for Marine Le Pen’s party. “But it is up to the French people to decide,” the German Chancellor added. The elections on June 30 and July 7…

An investigation by the European Anti-Corruption Prosecutor’s Office (EPPO) involves the EIB, its officials and even its headquarters, with an interesting and stunning development, not least because , according to Politico.eu, it involves the institution’s…

In April 2023, a Belgian lobbyist filed a criminal complaint against Ursula von der Leyen in connection with the negotiation of vaccine contracts by SMS with the CEO of Pfizer. At the hearing before the Brussels court on Friday, June 21, the EPP presidential…

In Italy, the left attacks small businesses from morning to night, but the real evaders are quite different. An alleged billion-dollar evasion was committed between 2018 and 2022 by the Italian division of Lagfin Sca, the Luxembourg-based holding company…