Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The European Central Bank must stand ready to lower borrowing costs to “slightly below” 2 per cent as global trade […]
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Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the EU economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. A top European Central Bank official has warned that global trade wars threaten to push up inflation in the Eurozone,
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. European Central Bank president Christine Lagarde said the ECB was likely to miss its 2 per cent inflation target more
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The German government could take on just under €2tn in debt over the next decade without running the risk of damaging growth, according to a Financial Times analysis of a Eurozone economists poll that supports likely-chancellor Friedrich Merz’s fiscal bazooka.
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The dramatic rise in Germany’s financing costs this week is far from a rejection of Friedrich Merz’s fiscal bazooka, investors say, with many believing the chancellor-in-waiting’s spending plan can boost growth without stretching Berlin’s finances beyond a sustainable level. German
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It took just a few hours for Friedrich Merz to conduct one of the sharpest U-turns in recent political history. At lunchtime last Friday, Germany’s chancellor-to-be received a sobering briefing on the state of the economy from finance minister Jörg
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The European Central Bank has reduced its benchmark interest rate by a quarter-point to 2.5 per cent, as it signalled
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Friedrich Merz’s “whatever it takes” plan to unleash defence spending and overhaul German infrastructure is set to usher in the largest economic stimulus since the fall of the Berlin Wall. While details still need to be fleshed out, the historic
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Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Germany’s financial watchdog has fined Deutsche Bank €23mn over a series of violations of the country’s securities and payments laws,
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Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz is considering unlocking hundreds of billions in extra funding for the country’s military and infrastructure as coalition talks with Social Democrats gather pace. One option under review is a proposal by top German economists to raise
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