Mini’s first mass-market electric car looks set to be an instant hit when it arrives on the market next year, with the firm claiming 45,000 reservations have already been made for the model.

The European Commission president has denied leaking a disparaging account of a dinner to discuss Brexit with Theresa May.

The European Central Bank (ECB) discussed a bond purchase programme with a volume of more than €1 trillion at its meetings this week, the German newspaper Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeiting (FAZ) reported yesterday.

Three-time Wimbledon tennis champion Boris Becker won €1.2m in damages from a German newspaper on Tuesday.