Europe economy

Europe needs the digital euro

The snarl-up of energy supplies centred on the Strait of Hormuz, is impacting households and businesses in the eurozone.

Eurozone price spike seen surging higher in second month of war

As oil and gas markets push higher and sentiment indicators plunge, Italy is among the countries weighing cuts to their official growth projections.

Europe’s economy is starting to feel pain from Trump’s Iran war

A JMEV electric vehicle assembly line in China's Jiangxi province. No countries are named as targets of IAA, but its rules are designed to address concerns about China's powerful position in clean-tech supply chains.

Asia anguishes over proposed EU Industrial Accelerator Act

Germany will limit price changes at gas stations to once per day, its economy minister says on Wednesday.

From food to petrol, Europe seeks to tame Iran price shock

ECB president Christine Lagarde has stressed that restructuring the bloc’s “business model” would require robust financial support.
THE BOTTOM LINE

Europe’s ‘limited responsibility’ model must go

Time and again, the EU has adapted and reinvented itself in the face of crises, leaving it well prepared to navigate a tempestuous geopolitical environment.
THE BROAD VIEW

Superpower Europe

For now, Lagarde is likely to repeat that the ECB has no exchange rate target and that the euro’s strength is merely one factor that impacts inflation.

Choppy markets threaten ECB’s ‘good place’ but rates still firmly on hold

The pattern of under-consumption in China will not be easy to break, as it would demand a wholesale transformation of the economy's structure.
PERSPECTIVE

The major economies’ prospects in 2026

Tariffs alone have added 0.7 percentage point to inflation, making the typical US household US$600 poorer.

Don’t be fooled – everything has changed for the global economy: Gita Gopinath