Ukraine’s new mobilisation law should be changed to avoid crippling the war-torn country’s fragile economy, leading business groups have said. Members of Ukraine‘s parliament are set to debate an amended Bill which if passed would allow Kyiv to call up more people
Germany has become the world’s third-largest economy despite facing a number of financial woes in recent months. The country leapfrogged Japan which saw its economy contract in the last quarter of 2023 leading to it falling behind the Europeans into fourth. Changes
The EU’s economy is struggling to meet a selection of challenges, the European Commission has found, forcing officials to downgrade the outlook for 2024. The authority’s Winter Economic Forecast has found that while the EU27 escaped recession at the end of 2023,
Sinn Fein’s Michelle O’Neill is Northern Ireland’s first Republican First Minister (Image: GETTY) With Michelle O’Neill now installed as Northern Ireland’s First Minister, and Sinn Fein pushing for a united Ireland, a hard-hitting new report has claimed the resulting Celtic Tiger would
The United Nations fears that a U.S. decision to return Yemen’s Houthi rebels to a list of terrorist groups could harm the war-torn country’s economy, particularly commercial imports of essential items, a senior U.N. aid official said on Wednesday. The U.S. move,
Germany’s Finance Minister, Christian Lindner, has issued a stark warning against the possibility of the country leaving the European Union, claiming that it would have disastrous consequences for the German economy. The comments come in the midst of renewed calls for a
India looks set to overtake China as the place to invest as millionaires scramble to escape from under Xi Jinping’s perilous Chinese economy. Wall Street has seen a shift of money flowing into India rather than China is the country battles a
The German economy is now “excruciatingly vulnerable” due to its previous reliance on China, Russia and the US, an expert has warned. Chancellor Olaf Scholz is under increasing pressure to turn the economy around after a long period of stagnation. His government
“They have three and a half times more banking leverage than we did going into the crisis, and they’ve only been at this banking thing for a couple of decades.” “The basic architecture of the Chinese economy is broken.” Another expert also
France is grappling with a decline in its global appeal for foreign investors, resulting in a second consecutive year of deterioration, according to the latest barometer from the French Foreign Trade Council. The country’s image, once peaking in 2020, has now plummeted