Politico: Macron faces 5 years of gridlock after stunning parliamentary defeat

Hopes of the EU political elite again dashed. Read here

Germany’s confusion about the sort of relationship it wants with China is symptomatic of an EU that hasn’t woken up to the fact that it can’t compete with Chinese manufacturing and neither can it afford […]

The number of unemployed people has increased above the three-million mark for the first time since 2015, providing further evidence that a long period of economic stagnation eventually takes a toll on the labour market […]