Europe has options, but they are limited and will be difficult to co-ordinate. The 27 members of the European Union, plus ...

Kent Smetters of the University of Pennsylvania reckons that long-term yields would be over a percentage point lower if ...

That African countries trade too little with each other is a well-worn gripe among the continent’s policymakers. Officially, ...

AMERICA’S HUNGER for Greenland is setting off an explosive row within NATO.  President Donald Trump, infuriated by European ...

A “defence investment plan” ( DIP ), a document laying out the weapons and platforms the Ministry of Defence intends to buy ...

Peer into The Economist’s decision-making processes with Robert Guest, our deputy editor, who explains how we select and ...

When Iraq was invading Kuwait in 1990 a British Airways plane flew straight into the turmoil. Now its passengers might ...

Social-media sites (which the country only partly stifles) carry rumours of a tussle between factions of the party that are ...

O VER ITS 56 years of existence, the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos—the latest of which will begin on January ...

Nor is this the first time that America has suffered an erosion of norms about how power is exercised and defeat is accepted.

America needs Greenland “for the purpose of National Security”, he insisted. The two sides had “agreed to disagree”, Mr ...

In both energy and credit markets, the result is a plethora of innovations aimed at reducing strains on the grid, as well as ...