BLOOMBERG Prime Minister Fumio Kishida’s ruling party won at least one of five Japanese by-elections but faced close races in the others, public broadcaster NHK said, with the results seen as key to his decision on election timing. The premier’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) is fighting to keep the three seats it previously held of the five. Managing to ...

BLOOMBERG Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is getting dragged into the escalating tensions between Washington and Beijing as she tries to disentangle Italy from its close relationship with China. Meloni, the right-wing leader who came to power less than a year ago, is leaning towards pulling out of an agreement to join China’s controversial Belt and Road Initiative, which has funded ...

BLOOMBERG Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis confirmed a general vote on May 21, completing the formal process to call for an election that will take place in the aftermath of a deadly train crash which has shaken the country. The country is today very close to recovering its investment grade, a development that will mean lower borrowing costs for the state, ...