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BERLIN: Only unforeseen circumstances could prevent Friedrich Merz, the hard-talking chief of the CDU conservative party, from heading the government of Europe’s largest economy after the general...

His war on Ukraine may not be unfolding according to plan, but President Vladimir Putin can still claim that the Russian economy is performing, as he says, “better than previously expected”. This...

In 1991, the year Ukraine became independent after years as a Soviet republic, its GDP per capita was 21% higher than that of Poland, which had just broken free from the defunct communist bloc. Thirty...