ECB President Lagarde said rising yields are not confined to the euro area.

日本央行审议委员增一行：基础通胀逐渐接近2%，但目前不认为会大幅超过该水平。

International affairs columnist Marc Champion says last weekend’s victory for the pro‑Russia Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Saxony‑Anhalt strengthens Vladimir Putin’s position. Champion argues that over the next year other pro‑Russia European populist parties could make electoral gains, reducing European support for funding Ukraine and for sanctions on Russia, with France the most important potential battleground. That, he says, helps explain why Putin, despite mounting economic and political costs from the war, is reluctant to compromise in talks: he judges Russia is winning the information war in Europe and that further political shifts could eventually hand Russia an advantage in the conflict while fracturing Western unity and NATO.