A lack of workers is the “greatest burden” on the country’s economy, the Ifo’s president has warned Labor shortages and the transition to renewable energy along with soaring inflation will weigh on Germany’s economic growth in the long term, the president of the Ifo Institute for Economic Research, Clemens Fuest, has warned.

A 36-year-old refugee from Odessa Region in Ukraine has been arrested in the Czech Republic after allegedly detonating a pyrotechnic device inside his wife, according to local media. Police in Pilsen Region filed criminal charges on Tuesday against the man identified only as Aleksandr S., for inflicting “grievous bodily harm,” Czech outlet Krimi-Plzen reported. He…

Lithuania’s foreign minister has said that Kiev must not fall into “the gray zone” of world politics Ukraine must be covered by NATO’s security guarantees, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis insisted on Tuesday. He further urged the West, which has ploughed hundreds of billions of dollars into Ukraine, to take a firmer stance on helping Kiev…