Slovakia reportedly won’t back using frozen Russian assets for Kyiv’s military costs
Slovakia’s Prime Minister Robert Fico warned that his country will oppose using Russian frozen assets to fund Ukraine’s defense spending,…
Category: Budget
French parliament likely to miss key budget deadline
PARIS — France’s National Assembly is expected to miss a deadline to vote on the first part of the country’s…
EU Parliament warns von der Leyen: Change budget or we’ll reject it
BRUSSELS ― The European Parliament’s four centrist groups are to demand Commission President Ursula von der Leyen make major changes…
How Belgium’s De Wever derailed the EU’s ‘insane’ €140B Ukraine loan plan
BRUSSELS ― The European Union’s €140 billion loan for Ukraine remains in doubt ― and looks set to be for…
EU split over whether to let Ukraine use €140B loan to buy US weapons
BRUSSELS ― European countries haven’t yet agreed whether to give Ukraine a €140 billion loan to buy weapons to fight Russia…
France downgraded by S&P as budget uncertainty ‘remains elevated’
Standard & Poor’s ratings agency downgraded France’s credit rating late Friday in an unscheduled update that cited “elevated” uncertainty on public…
French PM to freeze retirement reform in bid to save government
PARIS — French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu said Tuesday in his first speech to parliament that he plans to freeze…
EU fraud investigators raid Greek farm funds agency
ATHENS — EU fraud investigators on Monday raided the offices of the Greek agency in charge of distributing EU farm funds…
Former French PM Bayrou erred in calling confidence vote, his former finance minister says
PARIS — Former French Economy and Finance Minister Eric Lombard said his old boss, former Prime Minister François Bayrou, miscalculated…
Zucman: French government should’ve listened to me on wealth tax
PARIS — Popular French economist Gabriel Zucman says French Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu made a fatal mistake by not embracing…