Yearly Archives: 2020

Time for post-Brexit deals expires

LONDON – European stocks were muted on Thursday morning as markets traded on the Brexit trade deal between the UK and the EU this week. Pan-European stocks are hovering around the flatline in early 600 trade, with the food and beverage sector climbing 0.8% while travel stocks are down 0.7%. …

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France takes on Islamist extremism with a new bill

PARIS – The French government on Wednesday unveiled a draft law to combat radical Islamism in a commitment to fight ideology as an “enemy of the republic”, calling the move for peaceful coexistence in French society a “law of liberty”. The law, which has been attacked by Turkey and other …

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