Bloomberg European Union countries won’t ratify a free-trade deal with South America if Brazil doesn’t take measures to achieve the greenhouse gas emissions targets it agreed to in the 2015 Paris climate accord, French Ecology Minister Francois de Rugy said. Top EU officials reached a breakthrough in market-opening negotiations with counterparts from the Mercosur group of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and ...

Bloomberg UK house-price growth remained subdued last month as values in London and the southeast continued to fall, according to Nationwide Building Society. June saw a year-on-year increase of just 0.5 percent, a seventh straight month below 1 percent. That compares with increases of around 2 percent a year earlier. The uncertainty arising from Britain’s departure from the European Union ...

Bloomberg Sweden’s main employer group is preparing to defend the key pillar of the Nordic country’s labour market against a brewing union wage rebellion. The deal setting industrial workers salaries as a benchmark for overall wages is crucial in maintaining Sweden’s welfare state and is the envy of competitors, according to Fredrik Persson, chairman of the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise. ...