Frankfurt / AFP German Economy Minister Sigmar Gabriel on Sunday lashed out at Deutsche Bank’s handling of its troubles, saying “irresponsible” managers had put thousands of jobs at risk. “I don’t know whether to laugh or cry that the bank, which turned speculation into a business model, is now calling itself a victim of it,” Gabriel told reporters, after …

  Lisbon / AFP Portugal’s economy will grow by just over one percent this year, Prime Minister Antonio Costa said in an interview published Monday, lowering his government’s initial estimate of 1.8 percent growth. “Everything indicates we will have growth above one percent,” he told daily newpspaper Publico, before adding that the expansion of the economy would not be “much …

  Washington / AFP Extreme poverty has been falling steadily around the world, but eliminating it by 2030 could be stymied by unequal distribution of the gains of economic growth, the World Bank said on Sunday. Unless the gains of growth are steered better to those at the bottom of a country’s economy, they could be left behind, warned the …