Volkswagen union chief and IG Metall chair urged urgent action to address investment, tariffs, electricity prices and retirement issues.

The ECB on Monday launched an interbank tokenized payment system, Pontes, allowing banks to settle transactions recorded on private distributed ledgers using central bank money, the Financial Times reports. Tokenization creates digital versions of assets and money that can be exchanged on blockchain-like systems; Pontes is operated by the ECB. The ECB intends central bank money to be an alternative to privately issued stablecoins for settling tokenized transactions, and a retail digital euro for consumer and merchant payments is also under development. ECB economists warned that widespread use of USD-denominated stablecoins for settlement in Europe could erode the euro area's monetary policy control.

美國共和黨戰略顧問、曾任白宮及國家安全部門官員的馬克·普菲弗（Mark Pfeifle）表示，伊朗和美國目前都仍有意達成協議。他說，“外交有時看的就是哪些條件被從談判桌上拿掉了。”普費弗爾表示，當伊朗最高國家安全委員會祕書雷扎伊再次提出與美國進行談判的要求時，“他一直強調結束封鎖、解凍被凍結的資金，以及停止襲擊。但他沒有提及賠償和重建資金，這告訴我，儘管伊朗的言辭依然非常激烈，但有一個具體的跡象表明，美國對伊朗施加的壓力正在產生一些效果，這說明雙方仍在尋找未來幾周的談判空間。”