Economy

Romania’s arms exports increased by 20 per cent in 2017, according to official statistics, but the country still lags behind some of its neighbours. Romania’s arms exports increased in 2017 compared to the year before, according...

The Swedish music-streaming platform Spotify goes public on Tuesday, following in the footsteps of fellow “unicorns” Dropbox and Zscaler. The stock market is healthy and the timing seems good, but what are the risks? Drew Houston...

Air France staff are striking in the hope of salary increases. Unions want the airline to share its 2017 financial success, but management says more pay raises aren’t possible. Air France staff on Friday went on...

Barclays has agreed a $2bn (£1.4bn) settlement with the US justice department over the sale of mortgage-backed securities in the lead-up to the 2008 financial crisis. The settlement follows a three-year investigation into allegations that the bank...

Jeremy Corbyn has accused the government of putting the profits of speculators before the interests of staff at one of Britain’s oldest engineering firms, which is the object of a hostile takeover deal that has been labelled...

In the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal, there has been a glaring lack of leadership from Facebook. Almost five days of silence passed before its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, faced the public with a post to...

H&M said price cuts and cold weather were to blame for a slump in profits at the start of the year, and warned more discounting would be needed to lift flagging sales at the fashion group. Pretax profit...

Themis Kalpakidis, a farmer from the small seaside town of Kavala in northeast Greece, and Agim Bendo, owner of a small plum orchard in the village of Turan in eastern Albania, share a similar agenda –...

Nikola Spasov, sole Balkan representative for the scandal-hit company, told BIRN in an interview that the company had worked professionally on two campaigns in the region. Nikola Spasov became the Balkans representative for Cambridge Analytica in...

In the first decade of the 20th century, Standard Oil was as mighty as the tech giants of Silicon Valley are today. The company had grown from a single refinery in Cleveland in 1863 to produce...