Hans van Leeuwen
International Economics Editor at The Telegraph
International economics editor at The Daily Telegraph
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3 weeks ago |
yahoo.com | Hans van Leeuwen
Micheál Martin was all smiles in the Oval Office on St Patrick’s Day, with charm his best defence in trying to win over Donald Trump. However, after initial pleasantries, the US president’s patience ran out, as he criticised the Irish taoiseach for “taking our pharmaceutical companies away”. “We don’t want to do anything to hurt Ireland,” Trump said ominously. “But we do want fairness.”Fast-forward eight weeks, and the Irish are ever more fearful about what “fairness” might look like.
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3 weeks ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Hans van Leeuwen
In the 2024 budget, it created two investment funds, one to deal with big structural challenges such as the ageing population and climate change, and another to prop up the economy through any future downturns. Both are to be topped up with a prescribed dose of taxpayer cash each year. But not everyone is mired in gloom.
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1 month ago |
yahoo.com | Hans van Leeuwen
Friedrich Merz’s parliamentary anointment as chancellor on Tuesday was expected to be a mere formality. Elected on a promise to spend billions of euros on infrastructure and defence, the head of the centre-Right Christian Democrats Party vowed a suite of reforms to pull Germany out of its economic rut and shed the perennial “sick man of Europe” tag.
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1 month ago |
telegraph.co.uk | Hans van Leeuwen
These are fundamental challenges but Merz's recovery plan starts instead with a huge fiscal sugar hit: a €500bn (£425bn) package of infrastructure spending, and a free pass from the German parliament to spend more on defence without breaching government spending limits. Fitch estimates that up to €1 trillion could be spent in the next decade, adding 0.4 percentage points to economic growth in the coming years.
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1 month ago |
afr.com | Hans van Leeuwen
May 2, 2025 – 10.04am or Subscribe to save articleSubscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe. Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? London | In October 1986, then-UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher launched her “Big Bang” deregulation of the British economy. This propelled London, and the world, into a new era of financial sophistication – one in which traders, bankers and brokers were the new masters of the universe.
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