The German company Volkswagen announces that it is withdrawing from the Russian market. The auto giant is currently negotiating the sale of assets held at the Kaluga plant.
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According to state news agency KCNA, Kim urged farmers to focus on increasing grain production and meet annual targets “without fail” at a meeting of the Workers’ Party of Korea.
The President of Belarus, Aleksandr Lukashenko, will pay an official visit to China between February 28 and March 2, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Beijing announced on Saturday.
An “exceptional” situation that “risked becoming dangerous and unmanageable”: Justin Trudeau’s government was right to resort to exceptional measures to end the truck driver crisis in the winter of 2022
The US Department of Justice announced on Friday the first transfer of some confiscated Russian funds with the goal of assisting Ukraine, according to AFP on Saturday.
29 Jan: The European Union extends the economic sanctions against the Russian Federation by 6 months
The European Union decided on Friday to extend by six months the sanctions against Russia for starting the war in Ukraine and is preparing new measures against Moscow
The recent strikes in protest against plans to raise the retirement age in France are unlikely to affect the country’s economy, Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire told Bloomberg TV on Friday
Germany will need more gas-fired plants to guarantee a viable electricity supply in the coming years, a report by Germany’s national energy grid regulator has found.
Since the US and its allies decided to stop importing Russian oil, there has been little indication that the measure has had a serious impact on the Russian economy.
European Central Bank (ECB) President Christine Lagarde said at the Digital Euro Conference held by the European Central Bank and the European Commission

