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      Eurozone economic downturn looms as business orders fall

      Euro hits six-month low and investors bet against more interest rate rises after release of PMIs

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    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
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      Italy’s budget plans boosted as 2021 economic growth figure is revised upwards

      Revision to GDP numbers provides some relief to Giorgia Meloni’s government as markets scrutinise economic policies

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    • Friday, 22 September, 2023
      EU-China relations
      EU trade commissioner to seek relief from export barriers during China visit

      Valdis Dombrovskis will face resistance over EV anti-subsidy probe as he pushes to rebalance €400bn deficit

      EU trade commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis
    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      Eurozone inflation
      Bundesbank warns eurozone must avoid entrenched inflation ‘at all costs’

      Joachim Nagel’s hawkish comments contrast with investor expectations of an end to rate rises 

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    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
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      Slovakia to drop ban on Ukrainian grain imports

      Agreement follows Kyiv’s rift with Poland, Hungary and Slovakia over unilateral import restrictions

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    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
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      EU envoy decries ‘highest deficit in history’ ahead of China trade talks

      Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis’ visit comes as Brussels opens anti-subsidy probe into electric vehicles

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    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
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      Poland signals halt to Ukraine weapons transfers amid trade dispute

      Threat is latest salvo in spat that revolves around Warsaw’s refusal to accept Ukrainian grain imports

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    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      EU trade
      Brussels considers defending EU nations in Ukraine grain dispute

      Kyiv files WTO lawsuit against Poland, Hungary and Slovakia after they ban imports

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    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
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      Meloni government retreats on plan to cap some internal air fares

      Strong pushback from airlines persuades Rome to relent on decree restricting increases to 200% of average prices

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    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
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      Germany’s chaotic year: 1923 and the lessons for today

      Crisis bred crisis in the Weimar Republic. On the centenary of the turbulent period, two books offer a reminder of the vigilance required to sustain democracy

    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      Fiscal union would boost EU defence spending, says ECB’s Fabio Panetta

      Incoming Italian central bank chief echoes call to make bloc’s €800bn pandemic recovery fund a permanent facility

      Fabio Panetta
    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
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      Brussels starts negotiations on final text of legislation to improve conditions for workers

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    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
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      Italy’s push to reform its capital markets hits a hitch

      Convoluted amendments threaten to reduce the appeal of a package of measures

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      Leader of UK’s main opposition party tells business leaders in Paris he wants to rewrite Brexit deal with EU

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    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
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      Italy turns to Kyrgyz shepherds to revive Sardinian farming

      Farming body seeks recruits from 6,000 miles away in fight to help rural economy

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      Poland, Hungary and Slovakia have trashed European law to break a trade truce with Kyiv

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    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
      Europe Express
      How France and Germany think the EU can adapt to new members Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: Italy’s expanding migrant detention centres

      Emmanuel Macron and Olaf Scholz
    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
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      German carmakers in the line of fire of possible EU-China trade war

      Resentment is brewing that Brussels’ subsidies probe against Beijing benefits French rivals

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    • Tuesday, 19 September, 2023
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      Can Starmer reset Britain’s Brexit deal?

      Experts say Labour leader has limited how far UK’s trading relationship with EU can be improved

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    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
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      German companies must cut exposure to China, warns Bundesbank

      Central bank says operations susceptible to trade disruption as foreign minister backs Brussels’ electric vehicle probe

      Containers piled up in the harbor in Hamburg, Germany
    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
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      Germany leads EU condemnation of Ukraine trade curbs

      Berlin accuses Poland, Hungary and Slovakia of ‘part-time solidarity’ with Kyiv over grain import bans

      Grain producers protest against the decision of the Bulgarian parliament to drop the ban on the import of Ukrainian grain
    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
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      The real reasons for the west’s protectionism

      The US and EU believe that it is not just their economies but their social and political stability that are at stake 

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    • Monday, 18 September, 2023
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      Lessons from a century of inflation shocks

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      The holy quest to agree on the EU’s new fiscal rules Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: an audacious criminal heist shakes Montenegro

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