The Trump Germany Threat Hardens and Runs Into the NDAA's 76,000-Troop Floor
Trump's review of U.S. troops in Germany is now a Pentagon planning exercise; below 76,000 in Europe, the order has to clear Congress.
Hendrik Van Der Berg
Bureau: Brussels
France and Britain Frame Their Strait of Hormuz Mission as Not the American One
Paris and London call their 51-country mine-clearance mission strictly defensive and explicitly without U.S. operational integration; Washington calls them slow.
Eurozone Q1 Inflation Prints Three Point Zero With Energy Up Ten Point Nine
Eurostat's flash estimate puts April headline inflation at 3.0 percent and energy at +10.9 percent year on year — the war's cost is now in the cost-of-living number.
The Bank of England Watch Extends as the Eurozone Three-Percent Print Arrives
Eurozone April flash inflation prints 3.0% with energy +10.9% — and the BoE's lone hawk just got a continental footnote.