Welcome to the Brussels Edition, Bloomberg’s daily briefing on what matters most in the heart of the European Union.

Russia claimed that its forces captured the strategically important town of Velyka Novosilka in the Donetsk region.While it ...

BRUSSELS — For years, Germany and its austerity-loving allies were Europe’s fiscal buzzkills. Their motto was simple: No joint debt, no budgetary free-for-alls and absolutely no blank checks for ...

In contrast, the Russian Federation has been referred to as an “imitation democracy”. It has institutions that one would find in democratic systems of government (a parliament and a directly elected ...