Given Britain’s fiscal climate, Andy Burnham’s putschist adventurism is staggeringly self-indulgent - PAUL ELLIS/AFP The putschist adventurism of Andy Burnham and the big-spending Left of the ...

France’s public debt has ballooned to a record level, official data showed on Thursday, piling pressure on new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu as he confronts protests ...

France's fiscal state has been branded 'worse than Greece's', and yet its borrowing costs are still lower than the UK's - why?

The principles behind investing in bonds are simple: if two borrowers are issuing paper with the same maturity and one is riskier than another for whatever reason, then you demand a higher yield to ...

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“Financial markets assess that Romania’s debt is costlier than France’s and Italy’s, and obviously Germany’s,” Darvas said. “But they don’t signal that Romania is at risk of imminent fiscal collapse – ...

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development lifted its 2025 growth forecast for the first time in more than a year but warned that the effects of tariffs and war will weigh on growth in 2026.

France, which has been grappling with a political and fiscal crisis, is on the brink of having its credit ratings downgraded by international credit rating agencies one after another. Fitch Ratings ...

Goethe’s Faust remains one of the most haunting works I’ve read. It portrays a man trading his soul for fleeting relief. Ghana’s DDEP, too, bears the mark of a Faustian bargain, salvation in the form ...

Barbados is not the only country managing a larger debt porfolio. A group of International Monetary Fund (IMF) experts says that while global debt has ...

Let's be clear, staggering borrowing figures despite substantial tax rises are a direct result of excess spending ...

Greece’s once notorious tax system has been transformed into one of Europe’s most efficient, powered by drones, big data and real-time surveillance.