Steven Rattner on economic policy, finance and business. WHILE a Senate report detailing Apple’s aggressive tax sheltering of billions of dollars of overseas income grabbed headlines this week, little notice was paid to a surreptitious thrust at tax minimization that was announced at nearly the same moment. In a news release, the American drug maker…
The Social Democrats have a storied past — they were pioneers in inventing the European welfare state — but a cloudy future. The party trails Ms. Merkel’s center-right Christian Democratic…
Then Japan fell into a seemingly endless slump, and most of the world lost interest. The main exceptions were a relative handful of economists, a group that happened to include…
The reaction was severe. Prime Minister Mark Rutte of the Netherlands condemned the measure, calling it “too bizarre for words” and not at all green. Criticism was particularly harsh in…
But supporters of the proposal, which won initial approval in the lower house of Parliament on Thursday, said the lack of English was a major factor in France’s declining competitiveness…
BRUSSELS — The European Parliament passed a resolution on Thursday demanding that the free-trade pact now under discussion with the United States exempt “audiovisual” industries so that countries like France…
The economic turmoil of the past several years has pushed Europe toward greater integration, starting with financial stabilization and a banking union that is still a work in progress. Everyone…
“Klimt showed there in 1905,” he said. “That is mind-blowing to me. Since then there has been Morandi and Picasso, Rauschenberg, Johns and so on. Maybe I’m romanticizing, but the…
But not any more. These days, Italy’s affluent are more likely to be selling their second home on the lakes than buying one. “There are homes which have been in…