Category: 3. Europe

This is CNBC’s live blog covering European markets.

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Indian travellers wary of Schengen visa rejections now have a clearer map to follow. With approval rates declining across much of Europe, new 2024 data shows Iceland remains the most visa-friendly destination, approving more than 9 out of 10…

Apostolos Thomadakis is Research Fellow and Head of the Financial Markets and Institutions Unit at the Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), and Head of Research at the European Capital Markets Institute (ECMI).

This week’s EU-US tariff…

Vladimir Putin will probably never give up on his attempts to bring Ukraine into Russia – which is where it belongs, according to his warped view of history. Those who oppose him tend to fall out of windows or suffer other “accidents” or go…

BUDAPEST –

Standing in Budapest’s bustling Monori Center, which serves as the Hungarian capital’s Chinatown, the contrast is stark. Chinese electronics shops neighbor…

A similar showdown had taken place in Spain earlier this year, with Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s partial obstruction of national lender BBVA’s move on the Catalan lender Sabadell to preserve support in Catalonia, a vital political constituency. Berlin, meanwhile, is also gearing up for…

The British prime minister, who once purchased a field in the leafy English county of Surrey so his mum could look after rescue donkeys, probably knows better than to mess with Britain’s animals.

“One of the main platforms those who wanted to leave the EU stood on when campaigning for…