The Stoxx Europe 600 index and Italy's MIB closed up 0.5%, Germany's Dax rose 0.9% and the U.K.'s FTSE 100 was tentatively higher by 0.3%. France's CAC 40 was the only laggard losing 0.4% for the day.

HONG KONG — China is sending Vice President Han Zheng to President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration in Washington, Chinese state media reported Friday, the first time a senior Chinese leader ...

"We are faced with the ruins of a ten-year-long misguided asylum and immigration policy in Germany," he told reporters, criticising European Union migration rules as "dysfunctional". Merz called ...