Michael Roth, head of the Foreign Affairs Committee in Germany’s Bundestag from Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s Social Democratic (SPD) party, called for permitting Ukraine to use weapons on targets in Russian territory,

Michael Roth, Chairman of the Bundestag Foreign Affairs Committee from German Chancellor Olaf Scholz's party, has called for Ukraine to be authorised to use weapons supplied by Germany and other Western countries to strike targets in Russia.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and France's President Emmanuel Macron warned in a joint opinion piece for the Financial Times that the European Union had to make dramatic efforts to improve its competitiveness or risk seeing its way of living undermined.