The deputy finance minister suggests removing obstacles to agricultural trade, amid global food shortages Russia wants its main agricultural lender Rosselkhozbank to be reconnected to the SWIFT financial network, in order to free up Russian grain and fertilizer exports, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Vershinin said on Saturday.

Catherine Colonna says bloc members should be less preoccupied with American election results Europe needs greater autonomy from the US in order to stop worrying so much about the outcome of elections the, the French foreign minister has argued. Catherine Colonna also stressed that trans-Atlantic ties should remain strong.

President Vladimir Zelensky had earlier said Kiev would be ready to talk to “a different Russia” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said he would “carefully consider” meeting his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov should the latter “ask” for such talks. The diplomat made the remarks to the media on the sidelines of the summit of the…