(Bloomberg) — The Swiss government wants to be able to sidestep the country’s rigid neutrality to allow more weapons exports but will maintain a ban on shipments to Ukraine. Most Read from Bloomberg Switzerland forbids arms sales to countries at war unless they are fighting under a United Nations mandate. Because of this, Swiss weapon […]
Home Depot’s sales continued to soften in the first quarter as the nation’s largest home improvement retailer was not only constrained by high mortgage rates and higher inflation for its customers, but it also had to deal with a delayed start to spring. Sales slipped 2.3% to $36.42 billion for the period ended April 28, […]
Ukraine is ready to consider the possibility of rejecting agrarian subsidies of the EU in exchange for mitigation of the requirements of the EU green deal during the EU accession talks. Source: an anonymous Ukrainian top official cited by Reuters, as reported by European Pravda Details: The integration of a huge Ukrainian agricultural sector into […]
Republican candidates in states that will determine control of the U.S. Senate next year have quietly shifted their stances on abortion rights in an attempt to combat Democrats’ success running on the issue. In key 2024 battleground states, some GOP Senate hopefuls have subtly begun to place more emphasis on situations in which abortion should […]