Bloomberg A plan to expand a natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany is driving a wedge into the European Union, with some eastern members feeling their needs are being overlooked by the richer and more energy-diversified west, the bloc’s top energy official said. The €10-billion Nord Stream 2 pipeline isn’t aligned with the principles of the bloc’s laws …

  Bloomberg Ukraine’s new finance minister said the next tranche of a delayed $17.5 billion International Monetary Fund loan could arrive as early as May. A mission from the Washington-based lender may visit within a month, said OleksandrDanylyuk, appointed April 14 after weeks of wrangling over a new government. Ukraine understands its IMF commitments and will implement a delayed increase …

  Bloomberg Leaving the European Union would be a “risky bet” for the U.K. and the country should not “turn inward,” according to eight former U.S. Treasury secretaries going back to the era of President Richard Nixon. The intervention in a letter to the Times newspaper in London published on Wednesday came two days before U.S. President Barack Obama is …