BLOOMBERG The European Union (EU) is set to propose a ban on many goods transiting through Russia as the bloc attempts to tighten the screws on the enforcement of sanctions imposed over the past year. The transit ban would extend to numerous technologies and other goods, including several types of vehicles, but not all items would be barred from travelling …

BLOOMBERG Poland is close to overcoming inflation pressures and has done so without overreacting in a way that could have damaged the economy for years, said ruling party leader Jaroslaw Kaczynski. Polish policy has been aimed at protecting the nation’s labour market, Kaczynski said in Janow Lubelski in the nation’s east. An overresponse to the sudden price increases following Russia’s …

BLOOMBERG European states reacted with fury to a Chinese envoy questioning the independence of ex-Soviet states, tainting China’s push to court leaders in the region and burnish its credentials to broker peace after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Some “ex-Soviet Union countries” don’t have effective status under international law, Chinese ambassador to France Lu Shaye said in an interview aired on …