Poland started building a barbed-wire fence on its 210-kilometer (130-mile) border with Russia’s Kaliningrad region to prevent the Kremlin from sending asylum-seekers into the country, Defense Minister Mariusz Blaszczak said. With the airport in Kaliningrad open to flights from North Africa, Poland sees the risk of another migration crisis, similar to what happened with Belarus last year, he told reporters ...

President Emmanuel Macron wants to streamline rules to build new nuclear reactors faster as maintenance issues beset France’s aging atomic facilities and the energy crisis spurs the country to accelerate the shift away from fossil fuels. His government is seeking parliament’s approval for legislation that would reduce overall construction time by more than two years by speeding up the decision ...

Daniel Moss | Gearoid Reidy Haruhiko Kuroda is summoning his inner Wim Duisenberg. The first president of the European Central Bank, Duisenberg resisted calls to adjust interest rates two decades ago with the retort “I hear, but I do not listen.” At the time, Duisenberg was under pressure to follow the Federal Reserve and reduce the cost of money. Kuroda, ...