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The under-fire U.K. finance minister is gearing up for a tricky budget next week — and slashing Brits’ energy bills could give her something to shout about.
Officials in the Treasury and at No. 10 Downing Street are…
“It’s going to be a difficult discussion, of course, but these are the ones worth having, right?” Albuquerque said. “What I have been hearing since I arrived is tremendous support for the savings and investments union. Well, this is about delivering it.”
The European Commission is…
The Artificial Intelligence Act, which took years to negotiate, is not even fully in place yet. Throughout 2025 a growing chorus of national governments and executives from tech companies and industry lobby groups have called for a delay of a part of the law, putting the issue at the center…
Recent outages from major U.S. cloud providers as well as massive shortages in the chip industry “showed us that we are dependent on digital technologies from China and the U.S.,” and “these dependencies are being used for power politics,” Merz said.
Sharing the stage, French…
Finally, both Trump and his officials argue, he has remade the global trading order to the benefit of the U.S. He has used tariffs and threats to force open markets long closed to American goods, to reap revenues by charging for the privilege of access to the world’s greatest consumer…
