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Rome’s push for wage bumps jarred with an otherwise cost-cutting budget.

Will François Bayrou’s government collapse over a budget vote, just as his predecessor’s did?

“Political fragmentation” in Paris means there is a “very low probability” of reducing the ballooning fiscal deficit, ratings agency says.

Even the labor market is a problem now, central bank warns.

MEP Stefan Berger had become a vocal skeptic of the project.

Macron has missed his own 48-hour deadline to appoint a successor to Michel Barnier.

Governments need to make more orders and defense contractors have to take more risks, NATO’s secretary-general said.

Frankfurt softens the hawkish bias that has colored its policy for the last three years, but it still sees policy as restrictive after a fourth cut this year.

The EU should begin discussing a new crisis-proof framework next year, Lisbon’s Joaquim Miranda Sarmento tells POLITICO.

As Berlin and Paris flounder, expect a stronger lead from Frankfurt.

Need for Paris to cut spending is “in the interest of Europe as a whole,” says Netherlands finance minister.

The U.K. finance minister dismissed the idea that Britain would have to pick sides in a possible trade war between the EU and U.S.

The outgoing government prepared the special legislation as Macron aims to find a new prime minister within days.

Five years after Brexit, Rachel Reeves will find Europe ready to talk ― as it looks for respite from some of its own troubles.

Andrius Kubilius is the EU’s first defense and space commissioner.

Yields on debt for the two countries are converging, thanks to instability in Paris and a Rome government that has managed to divide the opposition. 

The financial storm Prime Minister Michel Barnier said would follow if he was toppled hasn’t materialized. Was he exaggerating or are markets simply being complacent?

Unexpected sanctions imposed by the U.S. on Gazprombank threaten Moscow’s contracts with Hungary and Slovakia.

Trump should make his intentions known so the EU can make a contingency plan, says top Polish finance official.

Cash allocated for poorer regions will be gone for good unless Hungary completes reforms asked by the Commission.

Political uncertainty stalking the eurozone, however, is best navigated with a meeting by meeting approach.

Christophe Hansen says his new vision for agriculture and food will be “different” and exclude “eat it or die” targets.

The country’s half year at the Council’s helm coincides with a changing of the guard at the European Commission.

May’s vote on Poland’s next head of state looms large over the country’s six-month EU presidency, which starts Jan. 1.