European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde will attend the Eurogroup on July 9 and the EU Economic and Financial Affairs Council (Ecofin) on July 10 in Brussels, the ECB’s weekly calendar shows. The moves are atypical—such meetings are usually represented by an ECB vice‑president. Vujcic, who took office as ECB vice‑president in early June and has attended Ecofin once, is scheduled to be in Athens next Friday. Lagarde has not ruled out an early resignation to pursue French politics.

CATL recently signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Beijing Green Exchange, Ningde Jiaotou Group and Ningbo Yiheng Carbon to collaborate on carbon-emissions methodology development, supply-chain green finance innovation and alignment with international green rules to support high-quality industrial development.

South Korea's ruling Democratic Party on the 4th said it 'strongly regrets' a recent US report on e-commerce firm Coupang, calling the findings 'seriously inaccurate' and accusing Coupang of trying to shift responsibility for a large-scale user data breach onto the US report. The US House Judiciary Committee earlier issued an interim report saying Coupang had long been a 'target' of the South Korean government and alleging South Korea has conducted 'compulsory investigations, excessive regulatory burdens and heavy fines and penalties' against US firms.