editor@moneyweek.com (Emily Hohler)

Mark Carney, Canada’s “freshly minted prime minister”, has Donald Trump to thank for putting him there, says The Times. “As a Lazarus act”, he “takes some beating”. Carney (Harvard, Oxford, Goldman Sachs, Bank of Canada, Bank of England) didn’t even […]

The abolition of NHS England, the world’s largest quango, is part of Keir Starmer’s “Project Chainsaw” to tackle a “weaker” but “ever-expanding state”, says Beth Rigby on Sky News. He also intends to get rid of regulators, slash red tape

Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting, Friedrich Merz, is under fire from opposition politicians over his “radical proposals” to relax the so-called debt brake to boost the economy and allow for higher defence spending, says Kate Connolly in The Guardian. The CDU/CSU leader’s proposals,

Donald Trump may have been a bully, but he has “achieved the change of tone he demanded from Ukraine in short order”, says Owen Matthews in The Spectator. His acrimonious public clash with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in the Oval Office last

Three things emerged clearly from Germany’s general election, says The Economist. First, the opposition conservative Christian Democrats (CDU), along with their Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), won a definite if “underwhelming” victory with 29% of the vote.

Beijing’s reaction to Donald Trump’s 10% tariffs on Tuesday was instant, says Amy Hawkins in The Guardian. It imposed 10%-15% levies on imports of a range of US goods, export controls on a raft of critical minerals, and announced an

The centrist François Bayrou, 73, has been appointed prime minister of France after a historic vote of no-confidence put an end to the “shortlived” minority coalition of Michel Barnier, says The Guardian. Barnier’s government fell after he invoked special powers

“An abortive coup in South Korea was probably not on anyone’s bingo card for 2024,” says Robyn Mak on Breakingviews. “Enter President Yoon Suk Yeol”, who made the shock decision to declare martial law on 3 December, only to “make

Ireland’s political landscape after 29 November’s general election looked “strangely familiar”, says Fintan O’Toole in The Guardian. Familiar, because the two main incumbent parties, Micheál Martin’s Fianna Fail and Simon Harris’s Fine Gael, received almost exactly the same combined share

German chancellor Olaf Scholz has “just pulled the plug on his coalition and lost his parliamentary majority”, with polls implying that his Social Democrat party will be defeated in the snap election called for 23 February, says Guy Chazan in