BERLIN/LONDON: Stymied at home by Democrats determined to subvert his domestic agenda, President Donald Trump could double down on his disruptive foreign...
BERLIN: The five nations in the world’s leading intelligence-sharing network have been exchanging classified information on China’s foreign activities with...
BRUSSELS/BERLIN: China is putting pressure on the European Union to issue a strong joint statement against President Donald Trump’s trade policies at a summit...
DAVOS, Switzerland: The International Monetary Fund Monday revised up its forecast for world economic growth in 2018 and 2019, saying sweeping U.S. tax cuts...
BRUSSELS: The European Union’s trade czar has no idea what Donald Trump will tell his audience at the World Economic Forum in Davos next week, but she is...
BRUSSELS/BERLIN: On the eve of his trip to Europe, Rex Tillerson gave a speech last week that European allies had waited months to hear: an “ironclad” promise...
BERLIN: Half a year ago, the political stars seemed perfectly aligned for a deep reform of the European Union and its euro currency. Emmanuel Macron had won...
BERLIN: Following Donald Trump’s decision to decertify the Iran nuclear deal this month, shaken European capitals are asking themselves what the U.S....
BERLIN/PARIS: European countries are scrambling to cobble together a package of measures they hope will keep the Iran nuclear deal on track if U.S. President...
BERLIN: Near the end of a recent campaign speech in northern Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel turned to Europe’s refugee crisis of 2015 and offered her...
BERLIN: When President Xi Jinping took the stage in Davos in January and painted China as a champion of free markets ready to fill the global leadership role...
BERLIN: For German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who often pulls her rhetorical punches, her weekend message signaling a shift in the post-war order was...
BERLIN/WASHINGTON: Last month, in a phone conversation between Donald Trump and Angela Merkel, the U.S. president shared his views on Turkish leader Recep...
BERLIN/PARIS: After a decade of slow growth, rising unemployment and dwindling competitiveness, France elected a president Sunday who says he has a plan to...
PARIS: On Christmas Eve 2015, with France reeling from terror attacks in Paris a month before, Emmanuel Macron sent a letter to the president and prime...
BERLIN: She is controlled and cautious, a physicist from East Germany who takes her time making decisions and has never relished the attention that comes from...
BERLIN: In 2008, the 60th anniversary of the state of Israel, Angela Merkel delivered a speech in the Knesset in which she described relations between Germany...
BERLIN: In the week before U.S. Vice President Mike Pence visited Brussels and pledged America’s “steadfast and enduring” commitment to the European Union,...
BERLIN: It has been a bleak winter for Europe’s long-suffering left. In the span of less than two months, Francois Hollande, Matteo Renzi and Sigmar...
DAVOS, Switzerland: Chinese President Xi Jinping offered a vigorous defense of free trade at the World Economic Forum in Davos Tuesday in a speech that...
DAVOS, Switzerland: The global economy is in better shape than it’s been in years. Stock markets are booming, oil prices are on the rise again and the risks...
BERLIN: The resounding “No” from Italian voters to Prime Minister Matteo Renzi’s referendum on constitutional reform was not a rejection of the European Union...
BERLIN: Slowly but surely, the economic policy tide in Europe is turning, and it may only be a matter of time before Germany is swept up. By adding its voice...
BERLIN: Donald Trump’s victory has been a shock for America’s major partners around the world. But perhaps nowhere has the blow been more painful than in...
BERLIN: Back in May, when Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election seemed the remotest of possibilities, a senior European official took to...