The federal government of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has ordered personal pension funds to spice up their holdings of Turkish shares after a sell-off within the wake of final week’s earthquake prompted authorities to halt buying and selling on Istanbul’s equities bourse. The choice, introduced on Tuesday, comes a day earlier than Istanbul’s inventory alternate […]
Giorgia Meloni bristles over Italy’s ‘junior’ seat at European table
When Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy dropped into the Élysée Palace for a last-minute, late-night supper along with his French and German counterparts final week, Italy’s prime minister Giorgia Meloni was fuming. Simply eight months earlier, Meloni’s predecessor Mario Draghi had shared a practice compartment to Kyiv with France’s Emmanuel Macron and Germany’s Olaf Scholz, a trio […]