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 ...

Bloomberg German inflation may spike even higher than previously forecast this month with a rate just under 6%, according to the Bundesbank. About 1 1/2 percentage points of that will reflect a temporary cut in value-added tax and very low prices for travel-related services in 2020, the Frankfurt-based central bank said in its monthly report. German inflation already hit a ...