The Nord Stream 1 pipeline has been closed for maintenance since 11 July and many in the EU feared the supply would not return
Officials from Turkey, Finland and Sweden will meet in August to evaluate the progress made in fulfilling Ankara’s counter-terrorism demands from the Nordic countries to lift its veto on their Nato membership bid, Turkey’s foreign minister, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, has said.
Reuters reports that, speaking to state broadcaster TRT Haber, Çavuşoğlu said the meeting would be the first of a monitoring committee formed under an accord the three countries signed last month. He repeated that Turkey would block the Nordic countries’ memberships if they did not keep their promises.Ukraine’s central bank has devalued the hryvnia currency by 25% against the US dollar because of the impact of the invasion by Russia.
The bank also said the devaluation would aid the “competitiveness of Ukrainian manufacturers ... and support the stability of the economy in wartime conditions.” The devaluation comes a day after Ukraine asked its creditors for a two-year payment freeze on its international bonds in an attempt to focus its dwindling financial resources on repelling
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