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Today’s agenda: Merz on Germany’s debt brake; BP’s investor day; D1 makes a comeback; UK executive pay; and Russian grandfathers dying in Ukraine
Good morning. We begin in New York where a US resolution calling for a “swift end” to the war in Ukraine passed the UN Security Council with the backing of Moscow and Beijing in a vote that dealt the latest blow to western unity during Donald Trump’s presidency.