2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (588+ words) Ask people across Europe which country on the continent has gone the furthest in the privatisation of schools, healthcare and elderly care, and they might not guess the correct answer: Sweden. In the popular imagination, the rich Scandinavian country is…...

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3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (277+ words) It takes quite a lot for a group of nations to line up with Donald Trump’s rogue US administration, but current account imbalances as a result of China’s surplus and competition from Chinese companies have pretty much managed it. At…...

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6+ day, 22+ hour ago   (674+ words) It would be tempting to dismiss it as too small to matter: Iceland has just 400,000 inhabitants, and its referendum was not even about EU membership, just about whether to pick up long-suspended talks. But for the EU, it was no…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (666+ words) Richard Milne in Vårgårda Sweden’s first female prime minister and the frontrunner to return to power in upcoming elections aims to make the Scandinavian country a pioneer of green industry again after its struggles in batteries and steel. Magdalena Andersson,…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (854+ words) A. Anantha Lakshmi in Jakarta Vietnam is struggling to quell a wave of online dissent as anger mounts over the involvement of a former senior official in a deadly car crash that killed an 18-year-old girl. Authorities revealed in August that…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (574+ words) Henry Foy in Brussels The European Commission is drawing up plans to break up the EU’s diplomatic service and fold parts of it into the bloc’s executive, in response to demands from France and Germany for a sweeping overhaul of…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (720+ words) Good morning. Today, I unpack how Iceland’s rejection of restarting EU membership talks has put a big dent in the bloc’s campaign to portray itself to would-be members as a geopolitical haven in an uncertain world, and not just an…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (547+ words) Florian Müller in Frankfurt and Alan Livsey in London Germany’s biggest overhaul of its pension system in more than two decades is set to hand hundreds of billions of euros in retirement savings to global asset managers, at the expense…...