Bloomberg France’s European affairs minister, Clement Beaune, said the European Union (EU) could look to leverage its electricity supplies to the UK in an effort to force Boris Johnson’s government to grant access to British fishing waters. Beaune said that the EU will take action in the next few days to increase the pressure on the UK, which is a ...

Bloomberg China will not impose an anti-sanctions law on Hong Kong for now, local news organisation HK01 reported, a seemingly unusual backtrack from Beijing on a move that had alarmed businesses in the Asian financial hub. The decision to shelve the controversial law in the near term came after executives from Hong Kong and mainland Chinese financial institutions raised their ...

Bloomberg Romanian Prime Minister Florin Citu and his government were toppled in a no-confidence vote, intensifying political tensions that have already sent the national currency to a record low. Rivals and former allies joined forces on Tuesday in parliament to sink Citu, a 49-year-old former investment banker who’s been in power for less than a year but fell out with ...