Bloomberg European Union President Charles Michel sought to build momentum towards lifting a French veto on membership talks with North Macedonia and Albania. Michel hosted a dinner in Brussels for top representatives of western Balkan countries including North Macedonia and Albania. Last October, France blocked the EU’s goal of starting accession talks with both nations during the first half of ...

Bloomberg China is considering delaying its most high-profile annual political meeting for the first time in decades, as the government attempts to contain an outbreak of a deadly new strain of coronavirus. The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress (NPC) will meet on February 24 to consider a delay of the annual meeting of the full parliament planned to ...

President Donald Trump’s new budget proposal makes some heady economic projections — 3% annual real economic growth for the first half of the decade — to justify his policies and make the budget deficit look smaller than it might otherwise be. That’s a lot higher than mainstream economists at the Federal Reserve and Congressional Budget Office believe is likely based ...