Bloomberg Catalan separatists failed to heal their divisions in time to establish a com- mon front for December’s election, boosting Spain’s chances of restoring some normality to the rebel region. The main parties in favour of independence are set to run on separate platforms December 21 after Esquerra Republicana ruled out an alliance less than two hours before the midnight ...

Bloomberg French President Emmanuel Macron is keeping his hand in Chancellor Angel Merkel’s efforts to form a new German coalition. His Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire is spending Wednesday in Berlin, meeting with key players in Merkel’s coalition talks. Le Maire is seeing both Christian Lindner, the head of the Free Democratic Party, and Cem Ozdemir, of the Greens — ...

An ice-blue 14-story office tower called Ducat Place III is the building that President Trump might have constructed here. But like so many other Trump adventures in Russia, this one proved a tantalizing but futile dead end. Trump is angrily dismissive when questions are raised about his Russian contacts. He calls the investigation by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III ...