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Following the calls from Poland and the Baltic states, the European Union has quietly deleted a sanctions exemption that had allowed EU weapons manufacturers to do business with Russia, Reuters reported on Thursday citing anonymous officials.

The bloc’s economy may contract later this year, Morgan Stanley economists predict The euro area will slip into a mild recession in the fourth quarter of this year amid reduced energy supplies from Russia, according to a report by Morgan Stanley published on Wednesday and seen by Bloomberg.