Bloomberg On the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit last month, Chancellor Angela Merkel warned her likely successor that the coronavirus pandemic might require tougher curbs. But Olaf Scholz brushed aside the proposal, and Germany is now paying the price. At the Rome meeting in late October, where Merkel introduced Scholz to other world leaders, she proposed convening the ...

Bloomberg Bulgarian President Rumen Radev clarified his stance on Crimea on the first day after his re-election following comments that sparked an angry reaction from the US and Ukraine. Radev, who won a second five-year term, said during a pre-election debate that sanctions on Russia for its occupation of Crimea were having no effect. When pressed by his opponent to ...

Bloomberg Prime Minister Boris Johnson will set out plans for a dramatic expansion of the UK’s electric-vehicle charging network by 2030 when the government will ban the sale of new gasoline and diesel cars. The aim is to add up to 145,000 new charging points a year to the system until the end of the decade, building on the 250,000 ...