France

Meeting budget-deficit targets isn’t France’s strong suit, but it’s looking increasingly likely that President Francois Hollande will be given some breathing space next week, when the European Commission puts out economic forecasts for the euro zone. The previous forecasts, in...

January 30, 2010 Germany’s Bruederle Rules Out Bailout for Greece German Economy Minister Rainer Bruederle ruled out a rescue for Greece, as officials in Athens struggle to tame the euro area’s biggest budget deficit. “I don’t think that a bailout...

If nothing else, Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande say they have chemistry. The two leaders may not have reenacted the 1963 embrace between West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer and French President Charles de Gaulle at the Elysee Palace. But they...

As Europe’s political celebrities pack warm for the World Economic Forum in Davos next week, expectations of what they’ll achieve there are about as low as their economies’ growth rates. The Swiss mountain-resort pow-wow is shaping up to be a...

The euro crisis is not on the mind of investors as much as it was over the past two years. The most recent day for which data is available shows references to “euro” and “crisis” within three words of each...

Actor Gerard Depardieu has taken up residence in Nechin, Belgium, less than a mile from the French border, escaping from a 75 percent tax on incomes above 1 million euros imposed by the French government. He follows billionaire Bernard Arnault,...

Just as the ceremony awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to the European Union was coming to a triumphant, Beethoven-accented crescendo in Oslo yesterday, spy agencies in Washington released their unclassified guesstimates about the world in 2030 with pointed words for...