Monetary / Fiscal Policy / Policy Makers

By Kate Holton LONDON (Reuters) - For over a year Bhavna Patel has watched her first grandchild grow via FaceTime,...

TOKYO (Reuters) -Japan will spend roughly 2 trillion yen ($18 billion) on cash payments to households with children under the...

By Andrew Galbraith SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping called on Thursday for smooth global trade in vaccines and...

LONDON (Reuters) - The British lawmaker Owen Paterson, who was found guilty of breaking paid lobbying rules, has decided to...

BEIJING (Reuters) -China is on high alert at its international ports of entry to reduce the risk of COVID-19 cases...

By Catarina Demony and Sergio Goncalves LISBON (Reuters) - Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa's consultative body, the Council of...

By Kylie MacLellan LONDON (Reuters) -Britain's governing Conservatives were accused of corruption after they voted on Wednesday to halt the...

BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Hungary's government and private sector employers have agreed on the main terms of a nearly 20% hike...

By Michael Nienaber BERLIN (Reuters) - Germany's three-way coalition talks are heating up as the two smaller parties, the pro-spending...

BEIJING (Reuters) -China's new locally transmitted COVID-19 cases spiked to a near three-month high and tighter curbs to contain the...

PRAGUE (Reuters) -Czech centrist and centre-right parties reached an agreement on forming a majority coalition government and its key agenda,...

By Praveen Menon WELLINGTON (Reuters) - When a New Zealand central bank official spoke in September about the kōtuku, a...

ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia is "extremely disappointed" by the United States' move to suspend the duty-free access of its...

By Yew Lun Tian and Gabriel Crossley BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese President Xi Jinping is expected to push through an...

By Rocky Swift TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan confirmed on Tuesday plans to gradually ease COVID-19 border curbs, but fell short...

By Leika Kihara and Kantaro Komiya TOKYO (Reuters) -The ruling party's solid victory in Japan's parliamentary election on Sunday will...

(Reuters) - European Commission Vice President Maros Sefcovic said the United Kingdom must not "embark on a path of confrontation"...

By Kiyoshi Takenaka TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese voters are deciding on Sunday whether to back the ruling Liberal Democratic Party...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) -Germany's best-selling tabloid Bild scathingly criticised European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde on Saturday, accusing her of...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Parliament launched a lawsuit against the bloc's executive on Friday for failing to apply a...