Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
...Commission president Ursula von der Leyen has insisted that the money for Ukraine — €17bn in grants and €33bn in loans — be part of the €100bn increase in the EU’s 2021-27 budget, known as the multiannual...
...This article picked by a teacher with suggested questions is part of the Financial Times free schools access programme. Details/registration here....
...The country needs to make up for years of under-investment — in part, thanks to the debt brake itself — in railways, bridges and schools, and in its digital infrastructure....
...He added that this emergency exemption, which was also deployed last year, after Russia invaded Ukraine and energy prices went through the roof, was an “intrinsic part” of the debt brake’s design....
...Some €37bn has been drawn down from the WSF this year, in part to finance a cap on gas and electricity prices....
...It develops and manufactures a wide range of parts, such as gears, transmissions, brakes and wheels, mainly for sports bikes including road and mountain bikes, with an estimated global share of 85 per cent...
...Part of the solution is to use the balance sheets of multilateral development banks more imaginatively. Yet behind such relatively technical policy challenges lie political obstacles....
...If the judges of the constitutional court in Karlsruhe rule against the government on Wednesday, the loss of up to €60bn of funding capacity could force Berlin to ditch part of its plan to fund the country...
...The forms of integration adopted in the 1980s and 1990s are no longer sufficient — and can even turn into a brake on growth. Europe still fails to make enough of its size....
...This article is part of the Financial Times free schools access programme. Details/registration here....
...Germany’s top court has struck down a €60bn off-budget fund that formed a key part of the government’s plans for financing its energy transition and climate policy, declaring it broke the country’s law restricting...
...Plus, China wants its economy to grow a lot this year, but it’s also pumping the brakes on local spending....
...Lindner has been forced to seek savings from many parts of the government, including cuts to farming subsidies....
...Worldcoin’s iris scan is designed to verify humans, acting as a countermeasure to the proliferation of AI that OpenAI is part of. Altman is therefore trying to solve a problem he helped create....
...“We don’t like the emergency brake but if this is what they need to save face and agree so be it,” said an EU diplomat....
...Just as serious is the way going part-time stunts women’s careers more widely....
...He said these companies took longer to scale and raise venture capital, in part because of a younger start-up ecosystem....
...Market participants added that a fresh deluge of dollar-denominated bond issuance has also acted as a temporary brake on US spreads....
...The move, which is part of the overall extension of trade liberalisation with Ukraine for another year, could cost Kyiv tens of millions of euros in tariffs if it cannot find alternative markets....
...Conversely, it was wrong to think economies needed to slam on the growth brakes to safeguard price stability (although the growth brake itself seems not to be working)....
...The renewed measures allow member states to introduce an emergency brake and impose tariffs on imports of poultry, eggs and sugar if they rise above average volumes for 2022-2023....
...Or to use a motoring analogy, “their feet are still pressing on the car’s brakes, but not so hard”....
...Albert Bridge Capital holds shares in Porsche SE, which is part owned by Volkswagen....
...“We need to put a brake on.” “Angry words and looks” from others served to marginalise religious Iranians, she added. “But we need to feel secure, make progress and be part of this society.”...
...About half of this figure was used to pay most households’ gas bills in December, which was not part of the Ifo’s estimates. Berlin has so far spent a further €11.3bn on the electricity price brake....
International Edition