Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The writer is Norway’s minister of finance Governments worldwide are thinking about how to best design tax systems to ensure that their economies can stay competitive and become environmentally sustainable, while continuing to raise sufficient […]
President Emmanuel Macron of France named the choices less than three weeks after the previous government collapsed. He had already picked François Bayrou as prime minister.
Illustration: Barbara Gibson. Images: Getty/Alamy Killer viruses. Artificial intelligence. Extreme weather. Microplastics. Mental health. These are just a few of the pressing issues on which governments need science to inform their policies. But the systems that connect scientists with politicians are not working well, according to a Nature survey of around 400 science-policy specialists around […]
Dozens of clay bowls may be evidence of one of the earliest government institutions in the world, a new study finds. The bowls, which were unearthed at an early archaeological site in Iraq, are thought to have held savory meals given in exchange for labor in ancient Mesopotamia. But the site was eventually abandoned, which […]
Stay informed with free updates Simply sign up to the Chinese economy myFT Digest — delivered directly to your inbox. Chinese authorities have unveiled their biggest fiscal package in recent years in their latest effort to jump-start economic growth as they battle trade tensions and the threat of sweeping new tariffs from Donald Trump. The […]
