Bloomberg A populist former prime minister won Slovenia’s elections, yet rivals who united against his anti-refugee rhetoric vowed to block him from government. Janez Jansa’s Slovenian Democratic Party, whose campaign echoed the one that lifted nationalists to power in neighboring Italy, won a quarter of the vote, the State Election Commission said. In second place was the List of Marjan ...

Bloomberg Prime Minister Theresa May’s government is preparing to publish its plan to keep the UK under European Union customs rules for longer as it seeks to break the Brexit deadlock, people familiar with the matter said. British negotiators expect to send the EU a document this week setting out how May imagines a time-limited extension to existing customs arrangements ...

Bloomberg French President Emmanuel Macron’s chief of staff Alexis Kohler is under investigation for his dealings with MSC Mediterranean Shipping Co. when he was working for the previous government before being head-hunted to became the Geneva-based firm’s chief financial officer in 2016. France’s financial prosecutor, known as the Parquet National Financier, said it opened the probe following news reports alleging ...