London / Bloomberg Six U.K. ministers signaled their intention to campaign for Britain to leave the European Union in June 23’s referendum by heading straight from a cabinet meeting to the headquarters of the Vote Leave campaign group. Justice Secretary Michael Gove, Work & Pensions Secretary Iain Duncan Smith and Chris Grayling, the leader of the House of Commons, were ...

Geneva / AFP Richemont, the world’s second-biggest luxury goods group, is planning to cut up to 350 jobs in Switzerland this year amid a “difficult” watch market, a Swiss newspaper reported Saturday. Richemont, second only to France’s LVMH in the luxury world, is “studying an adjustment of the production capacities of some watch manufacturers,” Le Temps daily reported, quoting an ...

Berlin / BLOOMBERG Germany will step up surprise tests for airline pilots to detect medications and drugs nearly a year after a Germanwings co-pilot suffering from depression deliberately crashed his plane, the SuddeutscheZeitung newspaper reported on Saturday. The Munich paper, citing a document which outlined a series of measures approved in Berlin Friday, reported that the new programme will come ...