U.S. and Chinese officials have been working to arrange a summit between U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping in the coming months, which will likely take place in Beijing, experts said. Dilara Irem Sancar | Anadolu | Getty Images President Donald Trump on Friday threatened to slap a “massive increase of Tariffs”…
With its recent political turmoil and instability, France has been compared to Italy, replacing it as the new “bad boy” of Europe. Should France, then, take a page out of Italy’s book and consider a technocratic government? President Emmanuel Macron is expected to pick his new prime minister by Friday evening, after outgoing PM Sebastien Lecornu led…
In the ever-evolving long-term competition between the United States and China, it can be easy to lose sight of the quieter but more enduring risks that lie beneath the headlines. Case in point: China’s new sweeping export controls on rare earth magnets and related technologies, tightening its grip on critical inputs for everything from EVs…
In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin attends a flag-raising ceremony for the latest Project 955A (Borey-A) strategic nuclear-powered submarine Knyaz Pozharsky in Severodvinsk on July 24, 2025. Alexander Kazakov | Afp | Getty Images Europe has to confront the reality of the “hybrid warfare” being waged…
Steel worker at the blast furnace tap of the at the Salzgitter AG steelworks on March 02, 2020 in Salzgitter, Germany. Maja Hitij | Getty Images News | Getty Images The European Union’s decision to hike steel tariffs and sharply cut import quotas has provoked widespread concern in the U.K., as well as rumblings of…
France’s President Emmanuel Macron welcomes European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen as she arrives for a summit at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, on March 27, 2025. F Ludovic Marin | Afp | Getty Images Tensions are likely to be high in Brussels this week, as yet another political implosion in France leaves the…
LONDON — European stocks ticked lower on Tuesday, with all eyes on France after the resignation of Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu plunged the country into a fresh political crisis. The pan-European Stoxx 600 index was down 0.2% by 8:36 a.m. in London (3:36 a.m. ET), with most sectors and major bourses in the red. France…
The National Assembly building in Paris, France, on Monday, Oct. 6, 2025. French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu resigned Monday morning, just a day after President Emmanuel Macron named a new cabinet that was broadly criticized. Photographer: Nathan Laine/Bloomberg via Getty Images Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images As news of French Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu’s resignation broke on Monday…
France’s President Emmanuel Macron gestures as he speaks to the press at the end of the 7th European Political Community (EPC) Summit at the Bella Center in Copenhagen, Denmark on October 2, 2025. Ludovic Marin | Afp | Getty Images French President Emmanuel Macron is confronting another massive political headache following the shock resignation of…
Sebastien Lecornu, France’s prime minister, during the handover ceremony at the Hotel Matignon in Paris, France, on Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2025. Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images France’s new Prime Minister Sebastien Lecornu has resigned just weeks after his appointment, plunging the country into a fresh political crisis. Lecornu, France’s fifth PM in less than…
