Organisers expected to delay flagship event in order to let European domestic leagues finish

‘We are ready to go further,’ says French minister after issuing temporary prohibitions

Coronavirus-linked turmoil draws many investors out into the open

Settlement house delays payout and project to let small shareholders cash out

Volatility gauges for both regions show sharp falls from historic highs in March

Coronavirus damage to economy drives eurozone investor sentiment to a record low

Miles Johnson and Daniel Dombey discuss the lockdowns in Italy and Spain

Why the Germans and Dutch are right to resist this way of sharing coronavirus costs

Strategists expect concerns about eurozone stability to dent the currency

Commission warns pandemic will wipe out growth in all member states and result in an uneven recovery

Latest proposal accused of being misleading over environmental risk

Pound dips following UK chancellor’s hard Brexit remarks

Spanish and Italian bans on short selling follow US Federal Reserve’s liquidity injection

The fintech company aims to disrupt other Latin American markets with its smartphone-based services

Products vital to combat coronavirus could become more expensive and scarce

At the start of the year, it looked like Europe would be in for a “Summer E-Scooters / E-Bike War,” as both regional startups and U.S.-backed unicorns vied for the pockets of city commuters. Consolidation came when German startup Circ was taken over by U.S. competitor Bird at the start of the year. Still on […]

The Europas Awards — which have been recognising the hottest European tech startups in since 2009 — are now open for the public voting stage, prior to the formal judging process. The entries have been sorted and sifted by journalists to compile an editorially-driven ‘long list’ of some of Europe’s most exciting startups and investors. […]

Deep Render, a London startup and spin-out of Imperial College that is applying machine learning to image compression, has raised £1.6 million in seed funding. Leading the round is Pentech, with participation from Speedinvest. Founded in mid-2017 by Arsalan Zafar and Chri Besenbruch, who met while studying Computer Science at Imperial College London, Deep Render […]

The anti-Brexit movement wasted energy on negative campaigning and parliamentary wrecking tactics

The German finance minister’s proposition on EU deposit insurance are not quite what they seem

If the populists gain power in France and Italy, the future of the euro will be in their hands

Security and climate change will be high on Ursula von der Leyen’s list of priorities

Brussels was wrong to treat Brexit as a threat, rather than grasping it as an opportunity

From Brexit to fiscal policy, the EU’s largest member states have seen the mainstream wrongfooted

The UK should not agree to proposals to stagger the talks, with fish as part of the first course

The continent could become a playground of conflicting US, Chinese and Russian interests

Recognition of a two-speed Europe would help fix divides

Once the UK accepted trade friction, everything changed

The EU is culpably complacent about the challenges of the digital age

London and Brussels have both turned these negotiations into a zero-sum game

Ideally governments would co-ordinate fiscal policy but there is no sense of urgency

Without a co-ordinated response, national stimulus policies will end up increasing imbalances

Direct payments should be made to citizens and companies

What if Italy cannot service its debt and a future government is tempted to default?

It is hard to overstate the turn to Euroscepticism. It will not go away when lockdown ends

We do not need another big lending programme; equity investments would get us out of the credit-versus-loans debate

While human travel has become severely restricted in recent months, the movement of goods has remained a constant priority — and in some cases, has become even more urgent. Today, a startup out of Switzerland that builds hardware and operates a logistics network designed to transport one item in particular — pharmaceuticals — is announcing […]

It was only the other week that Andreesen Horowitz announced their second blockchain-focused fund of $515 million. In the announcement, they said: “We are still early in this Web 3 build-out. High-performance programmable blockchains will make decentralized network development much more accessible. After years of R&D, we are excited that a number of next-gen programmable […]

The eurozone’s problems run far deeper than anything that can be solved by a splurge of foreign cash

To a believer in sound money – gold – the idea that a paper currency can ever be high-quality is fatuous

Hidden flaws of the euro

Deep Render, a London startup and spin-out of Imperial College that is applying machine learning to image compression, has raised £1.6 million in seed funding. Leading the round is Pentech, with participation from Speedinvest. Founded in mid-2017 by Arsalan Zafar and Chri Besenbruch, who met while studying Computer Science at Imperial College London, Deep Render […]

It has near-unlimited firepower and is the only EU institution willing and able to act

European Union lawmakers have set out a first bundle of proposals for a new digital strategy for the bloc, one that’s intended to drive digitalization across all industries and sectors — and enable what Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has described as ‘A Europe fit for the Digital Age‘. It could also be summed […]

The lead European Union privacy regulator for most of big tech has put out its annual report which shows another major bump in complaints filed under the bloc’s updated data protection framework, underlining the ongoing appetite EU citizens have for applying their rights. But what the report doesn’t show is any firm enforcement of EU […]

Deep Render, a London startup and spin-out of Imperial College that is applying machine learning to image compression, has raised £1.6 million in seed funding. Leading the round is Pentech, with participation from Speedinvest. Founded in mid-2017 by Arsalan Zafar and Chri Besenbruch, who met while studying Computer Science at Imperial College London, Deep Render […]

It was only the other week that Andreesen Horowitz announced their second blockchain-focused fund of $515 million. In the announcement, they said: “We are still early in this Web 3 build-out. High-performance programmable blockchains will make decentralized network development much more accessible. After years of R&D, we are excited that a number of next-gen programmable […]

The fallout for Asian banks’ exposed to the oil and trading sector has just begun

Sleuth, an early stage startup from three former Atlassian employees, wants to bring some much-needed order to the continuous delivery process. Today, the company announced it has raised a $3 million seed round. ​CRV led the round with participation from angel investors from New Relic, Atlassian and LaunchDarkly. “Sleuth is a deployment tracker built to […]