Christine Lagarde

As the European economy continues lagging behind the United States, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) told the Davos elites the time has come for Europe to collectively look across the Atlantic and follow the U.S. lead as it grows in confidence daily under the leadership of President Donald Trump.

A return to the White House for former President Donald Trump Donald is “clearly a threat” to Europe judging by the America-first nature of his policies last time, European Central Bank (ECB) president Christine Lagarde cautioned Thursday.

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) – The European Central Bank chugged ahead with another outsized interest rate hike Thursday and vowed more to come, underlining its drive to subdue inflation even as the European economy slows and the U.S. Federal Reserve eases its pace of increases.

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) – The European Central Bank is set for another large interest rate increase to fight painfully high inflation even after the U.S. Federal Reserve slowed its pace, a divergence that underlines Europe’s later start and could speed the euro’s rebound from recent lows against the dollar.

Cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin should be banned due to their “excessive ecological footprint”, a top European Central banker said this week.

The head of Europe’s ECB has claimed that crypto assets are “worth nothing”, but that a future centrally controlled digital Euro would be valuable.

There are difficult months ahead for Eurozone nations, with the head of Europe’s ECB warning that the ongoing Ukraine Crisis poses ‘significant’ dangers to the currency union.

The Euro — the centralised currency of the European Union — is to turn 20 years old on January 1st, 2022.

The vice-president of the European Central Bank has said that current inflation is not ‘as temporary’ as initially expected.

European leaders are lining up an array of tax breaks, financial support for companies and likely central bank measures.

The globalist International Monetary Fund has enjoyed a spectacular change of tone over Brexit, and is predicting growth.

Christine Lagarde, the globalist lawyer who ran the International Monetary Fund (IMF) until last week has had her appointment to the top of the European Central Bank (ECB) rubber-stamped by the European Union’s powerless Parliament.

Like Powell, Lagarde is a lawyer. So the world’s two biggest currency zones will be lead by non-economists.

The European Central Bank stands ready to cut interest rates and could re-start its bond purchase stimulus program if needed to help the economy, President Mario Draghi said Tuesday.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry has made a surprise visit to the World Government Summit in Dubai.

Saudi Arabia is scrambling to rescue a key investment summit set to begin on Tuesday, as the fallout from the murder of critic Jamal Khashoggi drives a building wave of policymakers and corporate giants to withdraw.

Spain must open its borders to more than five million migrants over the coming decades in order to fund the pension system, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has declared.

Attendees at a summit on women and entrepreneurship in Berlin on Tuesday responded rudely when Ivanka Trump said that families are important to President Donald Trump.

“I want to be loud and clear: populism scares me,” a leading global investment fund manager has told the World Economic Forum in Davos, setting the scene for the conference at large.

The political and business elite, who attend the annual World Economic Forum (WEF) meeting in Davos, admit their push for globalisation and open borders contributed to the worldwide populist backlash and the rejection of the mass integration project.

PARIS (AP) – A special French court has declared International Monetary Fund chief Christine Lagarde guilty of criminal negligence in a long-running arbitration case. But the court decided not to punish her or give her a criminal record. The Court

International Monetary Fund head Christine Lagarde will on Monday learn the verdict in her trial for approving a massive state payout to a tycoon when she was French finance minister.

IMF boss Christine Lagarde was in a Paris court on Monday for the start of her trial for negligence over a state payout to a tycoon made while she was French finance minister.

Britain will grow at a faster rate than Germany and France, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said – just weeks after it claimed a vote for Brexit would be an economic disaster. Despite previously claiming that leaving the European

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Financial markets “vastly underestimated” the outcome of Britain’s vote to leave the European Union but did not panic on Friday, International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde said on Sunday. “There was a violent, brutal, immediate massive

Brexit campaigners have accused the International Monetary Fund (IMF) of trying to “bully” British voters into voting Remain in the June referendum on continued membership of the European Union (EU). The timing of a crucial report due to be published by

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) released a report Wednesday finding that annual cost of bribes paid in both developing countries and advanced economies amounts to $1.5 to $2 trillion globally.

A French court has ordered Christine Lagarde, the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), to face trial over her role in a payout of some 400 million euros ($434 million) to businessman Bernard Tapie, her lawyer said on Thursday.

In approving the Chinese yuan as a 10.92 percent participant as a reserve currency in the global basket, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) warned that China’s inclusion could push up interest rates.

Contents: Greece heads for further chaos with referendum on Sunday; IMF report on Greece raising concerns about IMF’s credibility; China hunts for ‘stock manipulators’ as market crashes

Contents: Australia accused of paying people smugglers to take migrants to Indonesia; Pakistan shuts down ‘Save the Children’ and threatens other NGOs; France’s Dominique Strauss-Kahn acquitted of ‘aggravated pimping’

ISIS claims responsibility of major terrorist attack in east Afghanistan; Afghanistan becomes more ungovernable as US-led coalition withdraws; Greece scrapes the bottom of the barrel as bankruptcy talk increases

Pakistan parliament debates sending troops to Yemen to support Saudi Arabia; Greece confirms that it will pay the IMF on Thursday and avoid bankruptcy