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The Purchasing Managers’ Index has been in decline for seven consecutive months Business activity in Europe’s 20-nation single currency bloc continued to contract at the end of 2023, as a downturn in the dominant services industry stretched into the final month of the year, data compiled by S&P Global has revealed.

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…