Key officials have supported the idea of aligning the taxation of kerosene for private planes and gasoline for cars Raising taxes on private jets would be a display of “common sense,” Christophe Bechu, France’s minister for ecological transition, said on Saturday. His remarks came the day after MPs from the majority Renaissance party tabled an…

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Moscow is ready to pay off its debts, but half of the nation’s forex reserves are frozen abroad Washington and its allies want to push Russia into an “artificial default” by making it impossible to pay off the country’s foreign debts despite having the money to do so, Finance Minister Anton Siluanov said on Monday.