Athens / AFP Strikes hit Greece on Thursday against a new round of tax hikes and labour changes considered by the government under the country’s EU rescue deal. Civil servants, teachers, sailors and hospital doctors walked off the job to protest the new austerity measures currently negotiated with the country’s creditors. Some 6,500 people demonstrated in Athens in support …

  Berlin / AFP The German economy has shrugged off the shock election of Donald Trump as US president, with business confidence holding at a two-year high and consumption expected to rise in December. “The economic upturn in Germany remains intact. The German economy seems to be unfazed by the election of Donald Trump as US President,” said the Munich-based …

  London / AFP Official forecasts that Brexit will blow a £59-billion hole in the British government’s budget drew fire from eurosceptics on Thursday, and even finance minister Philip Hammond said there was a “high degree of uncertainty” about the numbers. Former cabinet minister Iain Duncan Smith said the predictions from the government’s budget watchdog, the independent Office for Budget …