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EU orders Hungary to drop food price cap on foreign retailers
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EU aims to agree by Friday to long-term freeze of Russian central bank assets
Date: December 11, 2025
By Jan Strupczewski BRUSSELS, Dec 11 (Reuters) - European Union governments want to agree on Friday to freeze Russian central bank assets immobilised in Europe for as long as necessary, replacing the...
Bank of England to cut rates on December 18 to 3.75% and again in Q1 2026 - Reuters poll
Date: December 11, 2025
LONDON, Dec 11 (Reuters) - The Bank of England will cut interest rates by a quarter point to 3.75% on December 18, according to all economists polled by Reuters, with evidence showing still-elevated...
Germany's PCK refinery says no impact from pipeline leak
Date: December 11, 2025
FRANKFURT, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Germany's PCK said on Thursday it was operating normally and drawing on internal stocks, a day after a crude oil spill from a pipeline which feeds the refinery from the...
Austrian lower house passes headscarf ban for under-14s in schools
Date: December 11, 2025
By Francois Murphy VIENNA, Dec 11 (Reuters) - Austria's lower house of parliament on Thursday passed a ban on Muslim headscarves in schools for girls under 14 despite uncertainty over whether the...
Europe needs closer integration in Trump era, Polish justice minister says
Date: December 11, 2025
By Anna Koper, Anna Wlodarczak-Semczuk and Justyna Pawlak WARSAW, Dec 11 (Reuters) - The policies of U.S. President Donald Trump should push Europe towards deeper integration and to strengthen itself...
European bird flu spike due to record wild birds cases, EFSA says
Date: December 11, 2025
By Sybille de La Hamaide PARIS, Dec 11 (Reuters) - An unprecedented number of bird flu outbreaks among wild birds and their wide geographic spread are driving an early and strong wave of the disease...