Moscow is hoping pro-European Moldovans living abroad don’t go out to vote in September’s elections. Russia is ramping up efforts to influence Moldovans living abroad across Europe to try to sway critical elections next month, the EU candidate country’s security chief has warned. National Security Adviser Stanislav Secrieru “The campaign…

The latest dramatic episode has a plot twist that Russia hasn’t seen for decades. 53-year-old Roman Starovoit, Putin’s minister of transport, left his office in the 19th-century building in Moscow city center on July 7, recently remodeled in the ponderous traditional Russian style reserved for ministries, and walked past the…

Rising food costs offset falling energy prices in July, bolstering case for ECB rate cut pause. Inflation in the eurozone stayed stable in July, as rising food prices offset declining energy costs — a development likely to reinforce calls for the European Central Bank to keep interest rates on hold….

All of Europe’s carmakers have reported losing millions in profit because of the tariffs, and say they’re not hopeful of getting carveouts for the sector. BRUSSELS — German automakers had hoped that months of lobbying pressure would give them extra carveouts in the EU-U.S. trade deal, but they’re now reversing…

How can Western analysts forecast what Russian president Vladimir Putin intends to do with the Baltic states? Since the early 2000s, Russia has increasingly acted and been perceived as an aggressive and revisionist force on the global stage. The Kremlin’s military intervention in Georgia in 2008, the annexation of Crimea…