Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz has called for a renegotiation of the European Union’s Treaty of Lisbon, citing new challenges that have emerged since the foundational treaty entered into effect in 2009.

Russian and Syrian airstrikes heavily targeted rebel-held areas in Idlib and Hama provinces in northwestern Syria on Friday, after Turkey failed to guarantee the security of the planned deescalation zone.

British Prime Minister Theresa May has dismissed Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson due to unauthorized security leakage from a session of the National Security Council (NSC), the prime minister’s office reported on Wednesday.

Russian Railways will start oil deliveries substituting volumes earlier pumped via the Druzhba oil pipeline in May, the corporate press service reports.

With over 90% of votes counted, Pedro Sanchez’s Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) leads the general elections in Spain, the country’s interior ministry announced on Sunday night.

Austria wants to intensify cooperation with China and hence strengthen the bilateral ties.

The management of chemical giant Bayer defended itself at the Annual Stockholders’ Meeting in Bonn against strong criticism of the Monsanto takeover.

The CPB World Trade Monitor shows that the volume of world trade decreased 1.7% in February, having increased 2.1% in January (initial estimate 2.3%).

The merger between Deutsche Bank and Commerzbank has been called off.

The Financial Times sees the potential for a rally of the Sterling.