Russia has lost about twice as many men to death and serious injury as Ukraine. But the trends favor the Kremlin.

President Vladimir Putin has grown concerned about distortions in Russia’s wartime economy, just as Donald Trump pushes for an end to the Ukraine conflict, sources say.

Germany is in the middle of its worst economic slowdown in years. Official figures show two years of consecutive GDP contraction, and 2025 is unlikely to bring any relief, projected at near-zero ...

W HAT DO Angela Merkel, Olaf Scholz, the Bundesbank, the imf, the OECD, Germany’s biggest trade union, its state-appointed council of economic experts and most of its European allies have in common?

Foreign companies are ready to invest in Ukraine’s devastated economy, but first need security guarantees from Kyiv, said the ...

European countries have ramped up defense budgets since Russia's all-out invasion of Ukraine in 2022. And many leaders have ...

We believe the new U.S. administration will adopt a more gradual and pragmatic trade agenda, aiming to avoid creating higher ...

Russia recorded in 2024 a budget deficit exceeding three trillion rubles for the third consecutive year, soaring to 3.49 trillion rubles ($34.39 billion), according to the country's finance ministry.

The German economy has shrunk for two years in a row, will stagnate in 2025, and hardly grow thereafter. Faced with ...

Societies survive and grow when they successfully navigate their contradictions. Eventually, however, accumulating ...

In many high-income democracies, the explosion of public borrowing over the past two decades has made it clear enough that a budgetary course correction is required, especially when analysis is ...