Bloomberg Europe’s troubled steel market is showing signs of bottoming out, according to the world’s No. 1 producer ArcelorMittal. While weak auto industry demand means it’s too early to call a recovery, steel prices in the European Union are starting to climb, said Geert van Poelvoorde, the company’s chief executive officer for flat products in Europe. ArcelorMittal announced output cuts ...

“And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you — ask what you can do for your country” —John F. Kennedy’s inaugural speech,January 20, 1961 Watching the Democrats’ presidential campaigns, it’s hard not to be struck by the huge gap that has opened up between Kennedy’s goal and what ordinary Americans now believe and practice. ...

Emmanuel Macron has marked out Matteo Salvini as his arch-nemesis in the fight against Europe’s far right. But his own actions are playing right into the hands of the most powerful person in Italian politics. The French president is preaching a pan-European agenda abroad, as he tries to win around Germany and other countries to his dreams for a more ...