This chapter covers the EU's digital rules enforcement, the UK's struggle to recover fraudulent business grants, and Ukraine's progress and challenges in their counter-offensive against Russia.
The EU’s competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager is stepping aside, and the UK has clawed back less than 2 per cent of losses owing to fraud and error on business grants during the Covid-19 pandemic. Plus, Ukraine is doubling down on its counteroffensive.
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