Paris is facing a Berlin-Rome axis in the debate over how to revive the EU economy. From eurobonds to a European preference and the Mercosur trade deal, competing visions are set to collide when the bloc’s 27 leaders meet on Thursday.

Antonio Di Salvo’s side finished the group stage as the only team to win all three matches. Without the tournament's top scorer, Nick Woltemade, Germany beat England 2-1 in the final game of a group that also included the Czech Republic and Slovenia.

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Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz are deepening cooperation on trade, defence and EU competitiveness, challenging the traditional Franco-German leadership model.

Yet, for months, a pragmatic alliance between German Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni has been building. And despite the politicians being, in many ways, unlikely partners,

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Germany and Italy are facing mounting domestic pressure to repatriate more than a third of their gold reserves — worth an estimated US$245 billion — currently held in New York by the US Federal Reserve. Germany and Italy hold the world’s second and ...

Germany rank ninth and look set for a top World Cup seeding while Italy slipped to 12th and Kosovo reached a new high of 80 as the FIFA rankings which will be used for upcoming World Cup draws were released on Thursday. The rankings confirmed the pots for ...

Marcus Ashworth is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering European markets. Previously, he was chief markets strategist for Haitong Securities in London. The simplest measure of stress within the euro area is the yield spread between 10-year bonds of ...