The crisis in Italy is also a crisis for the European Union. The populist parties that won the last Italian election, and that hope to do even better next time, are united in little except blaming the EU for Italy’s setbacks. They’re wrong about this, and now Europe must be careful not to play into their hands. The immediate political ...

The European Commission has settled a seven-year antitrust dispute with Gazprom, which was required to make concessions but avoided a fine. Although the Russian natural gas monopoly’s detractors in Eastern Europe are likely to say Europe caved, the settlement shows that the company has been defanged and is no longer a threat to Europe’s energy security. Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s ...

Everybody wants autonomous vehicles now: It’s the auto industry’s way forward and Silicon Valley’s latest preoccupation. China is no different. Alibaba Group Holding is testing self-driving cars in China, and Baidu Inc. started trials of autonomous technology last year. BMW earlier this month was the first foreign carmaker to get a license to test its offering in China. In mid-May, ...