Entrepreneurs expect a further deterioration in the EU’s largest economy, according to an industrial group Businesses in Germany are slashing their investment plans and freezing hiring as they see no evidence of a “self-sustaining” recovery in the EU’s leading economy, a survey conducted by the Association of German Chambers of Industry and Commerce (DIHK) showed…

Membership for Kiev can only come after the conflict with Moscow ends, a State Department official has said Ukraine should not expect to become a NATO member at the bloc’s key summit later this year, a senior US State Department official has said.

UK Foreign Secretary Liz Truss has told a British newspaper such a move would be contingent on Moscow’s withdrawal from Ukraine The UK could lift its “crippling” sanctions should Russia withdraw from Ukraine and commit to abstaining from “further aggression,” Britain’s foreign secretary, Liz Truss, has revealed.