Bloomberg French President Emmanuel Macron offered a way for Ukraine to work more closely with the European Union, hours after Russia’s Vladimir Putin compared his war with Kyiv to the fight against Nazi Germany. “Ukraine, with its fight and courage, is already a member by heart of our Europe, our family, our union,” Macron told members of the European parliament ...

  Bloomberg Russia’s ambassador to Poland, Sergey Andreev, was struck with red paint in Warsaw amid protests opposing the Kremlin’s invasion of Ukraine. Crowds jeered the envoy as he led a Russian delegation to lay flowers at a memorial to Soviet Red Army troops who defeated Nazi Germany in World War II as part of Russia’s May 9 Victory Day ...

Bloomberg The UK housing market is braced for headwinds as rising borrowing costs add to the cost-of-living crisis stretching the affordability for property buyers. Mortgage lenders are following the Bank of England (BOE) by raising interest rates from historic lows. That’s making it more expensive to own a home at a time when prices of everything from energy to clothes ...