Europe Is Doing So Well Even Politics Can’t Drag It Down
- German coalition talks, Brexit, Italy likely risks to EU
- Elections in Czech Republic, Austria highlight anti-EU support
Catalan Leader Flees to Brussels, Presses for Freedom
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Even as economic confidence in the euro area reaches historic highs, a series of political risks simmering across the European Union still threaten to undermine the bloc’s fragile recovery.
The euro-area economy, aided by more than 2 trillion euros ($2.3 trillion) of bond purchases by the European Central Bank, has been gathering pace with an index of industry and consumer sentiment registering its strongest reading this month since January 2001.