Europe's capital rules are set as if there's a banking union, which is more fantasy than reality, writes @PaulJDavies (via @opinion) https://t.co/x5jlG2Sob8 ...

We have Kyriakos Mitsotakis, prime minister of Greece, here with us. We'll jump straight in. Lot of movement on Ukraine this week.You've had Trump saying stuff about it. You have various NATO allies getting cross about the fighter jets incursion into its territory and warning Russia about it. You even had Germany coming forward and saying, let's use the $140 billion billion euro frozen assets to help Ukraine.Now, you have always been a kind of champion of this idea of having a common European fund for defen ...

Two months into his chancellorship, Merz is signaling that EU partners are unlikely to see Germany budge on the missing plank of the bloc’s so-called banking union https://t.co/pQj6CRwA6O ...