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Britain attacks ‘offensive’ EU as Brexit G-7 argument escalates

Bloomberg Boris Johnson’s UK government doesn’t want any of the leaders at the Group of Seven summit to leave Cornwall without knowing just how angry he is with some of them about Brexit. For the second day in a row, Johnson’s Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab has taken to broadcast interviews to condemn European “ignorance” about the UK, as a dispute ...

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Biden-Putin meeting won’t be ‘light-switch’ moment: Blinken

Bloomberg President Joe Biden’s meeting with Vladimir Putin won’t be a “light-switch moment” but the start of a longer process aimed at establishing a more stable relationship, said Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Biden believes there are areas where the US and Russia can co-operate, Blinken said on CBS’s “Face the Nation,” one of four scheduled talk-show appearances on Sunday. ...

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Merkel’s would-be heir prefers ‘Free Democrats’

Bloomberg The head of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party said he’d prefer to govern with the pro-business Free Democrats, rejecting higher taxes for top earners and criticising the Greens in the buildup to Germany’s election in September. Armin Laschet, Merkel’s would-be heir at the helm of Europe’s biggest economy, told Bild am Sonntag that his Christian Democratic Union is politically closer ...

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