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The EU parliamentary elections held last weekend delivered few surprises. Support for populist parties across the EU rose from around 22% in 2014 to around 28% currently, broadly in line with predictions from pre-election polls. The ranking of key groups in the European Parliament also looks t...

Europe: The Week Ahead (June 3-7) The National Bank of Serbia will decide on its key policy rate in the week ahead amid rising inflation pressures in the country, as well as reignited tensions with Kosovo. At its previous meeting in early May, the southeast Balkan nation’s central...

By Sonal Desai, Ph.D., Executive Vice President, Chief Investment Officer, Franklin Templeton Fixed Income What's the investment lesson in Europe's recent parliamentary elections? Our Fixed Income CIO Sonal Desai says it's differentiation. Read more of what's on her mind about this topic....

The Trump administration would be making a grave mistake to gloss over the major political setbacks for the United Kingdom, Italy and Germany in last Sunday's European parliamentary elections. This is especially true given that the world economic recovery is threatened by worsening U.S.-Chin...

By Paolo Pizzoli , Senior Economist, EMU, Italy, Greece Despite reassuring comments from Matteo Salvini, the extremely polarised result of the European election in principle increases political uncertainty, in our view. The chances that the League could eventually decide to cash in and g...

While everyone is focused on the Chinese "Game of Thrones," with the United States, I am not. The tariff wars could go on for months, if not years. While it is true that China has the second largest economy, it is 41% smaller than the United States. We can withstand the heat much better and fo...

There are no bullets, but plenty of verbal projectiles being fired. "More Europe" has dwindled to a pipe-dream shared by Mr. Macron and Ms. Merkel and few others. The notion of a European Parliament having sway over each of the 27 nations in the European Union is about to be dismantled, in my ...

Elga suggests a few investment options that may benefit from a pick-up in European growth and any decline in geopolitical concerns. We continue to prefer a "barbell" approach to risk-taking in the late-cycle stage: quality stocks, income-generating bonds and emerging markets. And there a...

There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late - Bob Dylan I am standing on the Watchtower now. I am peering intently at the European election, w...

It’s been almost three years since the original Brexit referendum passed in a vote that stunned Europe. The British people voted to get out of the European Union, and we’re still waiting for it to happen nearly three years later. At the time of the vote, headlines were blaring Ar...