Financial stability

Incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz is under growing pressure to win conservative policy concessions as coalition talks hit key stumbling blocks.

The vote to unleash borrowing for the military and Ukraine is a “first major step towards a new European defense community,” says incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz.

Rating agency keeps negative outlook as “political deadlock and polarization” complicate the government’s effort to tackle debt.

ECB President Christine Lagarde has reiterated the central bank’s cautious stance, but opposition is growing at the Russian frontier.

Mark Carney, Canada’s likely next prime minister, continues to be held in high regard across the Atlantic, where he spent the better part of the last decade.

The push by the Trump administration creates a “big risk” for financial stability, Bank of France Governor Francois Villeroy de Galhau tells Alternatives Économiques magazine.

Two decisions by British watchdogs, both of which have a direct effect on the EU, blindsided Brussels and threatened to derail healing wounds.

Governments desperate for a way out of stagnation are encroaching ever more on the ECB’s turf.

The U.K. delayed its implementation of global banking rules by one year due to uncertainty over what U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will do.

Amid rising uncertainty and fading trust in the global order, central banks are scrambling to stock up on an old but trusty asset — and speculators are joining them for the ride.

Who’s at the top of the class and who flunked? Here are POLITICO’s grades for each 2019-2024 European commissioner.

Long gone are the days of banker-bashing, as Labour asks the finance sector to help write the rules.

Higher interest rates mean higher debt repayment costs as European Union countries stare down the barrel of a trade war.

From energy and trade to finance and defense, here’s how Donald Trump’s second presidency will impact EU policy.

Politicians are vying with technocrats for control of a revamp of the single currency that both say poses serious economic risks.

Twelve years after its initiation, it is time to complete the banking union.

Andrew Bailey said the Bank of England’s only agenda is “trying to run an institution to its maximum effectiveness.”

After Thierry Breton’s resignation, French officials are bemoaning a loss of influence in Brussels.

Markets will certainly make their position known if politicking threatens to stretch public finances.

Bruno Le Maire raises the specter of financial disaster for France if President Emmanuel Macron’s opponents win this month’s snap election.

Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said the downgrade was the price to pay for bolstering the economy with public support during the pandemic and the inflation crisis.

Since the 2008 global financial crisis, regulators fear that the part of the financial system that sits outside of banks has absorbed all the risk.