Bloomberg French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire has a message for the German government on reform in the euro area: “It is now or never — jetzt oder nie.” After more than eight hours of tough talks with his counterparts from the Group of Seven that focused mostly on a trade dispute with the US, Le Maire found some time ...

Bloomberg Singapore Defence Minister Ng Eng Hen criticised both the US and China for taking “unilateral actions,” lumping the two rivals together as nations challenging the current global order. In a speech to the annual IISS Shangri-La Dialogue security forum in Singapore, Ng said the world’s two-biggest economies were similarly using security considerations to justify their behavior — the US ...

Bloomberg A group of 40 political prisoners in Venezuela were expected to be released on June 2, a day after President Nicolas Maduro granted conditional freedom to at least 39 people. The group includes at least six members of the opposition Voluntad Popular party, lawmaker Adriana Pichardo said. It doesn’t include the party’s founder, Leopoldo Lopez, though National Assembly lawmakers ...