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  European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, speaking at the EU-Canada summit in Montreal in the presence of Prime Minister Mark Carney, proposed that Canada become an associate member of the European Union. Enlargement has always been central to European integration. Its greatest success was admitting the Central European countries after they threw off […]

  Military expenditure can increase officially measured output and enrich selected groups while leaving regular households with fewer goods and greater financial obligations. For an economy sheltered from the fighting, the costs are less visible than ruined cities and lost lives. They appear mostly in forgone civilian production, taxes and debt. As governments weigh military […]

  For half a century, advanced economies systematically lowered taxes on savings and investment to raise productivity and wages. Concerns about the growth of artificial intelligence may be unwinding that consensus among some pundits and policymakers. For example, a widely read Wall Street Journal column argues that the answer to AI fears is to tax […]

  On September 2, 2026, the Dutch central bank (DNB) announced that between March and August it had relocated approximately 86 metric tons of gold from facilities in the United States and Canada to London and the Netherlands. The bank attributed this operation directly to rising geopolitical risks, emphasizing its commitment to strengthening crisis preparedness. […]

  Millions of cyberattacks exploiting two critical vulnerabilities in a widely used programming language for websites and internet applications forced governments, institutions, businesses and other organizations temporarily offline last week. The two gaps, collectively known as PHP2Shell, allowed attackers to execute malicious code on exposed web servers, potentially stealing sensitive data or disrupting services. Artificial […]