Bloomberg German Chancellor Angela Merkel showed a united front with Italy’s Giuseppe Conte days ahead of a crucial European Union summit, warning that EU leaders need to deliver a “massive” response to the economic fallout of the coronavirus pandemic. The German leader’s common line with the Italian prime minister was a sales pitch in favor of a proposed 750 billion-euro ...

Bloomberg An ambitious voter registration effort from Facebook has rankled President Donald Trump’s re-election campaign, which is complaining that the social network’s goal of registering 4 million voters in time for November’s election is an attempt to swing the election in favor of former Vice President Joe Biden. “With knowledge of every user’s political ideology, Facebook is officially in the ...

­­­Bloomberg Croatia and Bulgaria may join the euro area in January 2024, European Commissioner Valdis Dombrovskis said. The two European Union nations were admitted into the currency’s waiting room, known as the ERM-2, last week and must spend at least two years there working to fulfill the Maastricht criteria. They may be ready in 2023, but “the tradition is that ...