Putin Says That Russia Would Not Use Nuclear Weapons in Ukraine

The German Chancellor and the French President discussed their joint concerns during a nearly three and a half hours of talks over over lunch in Paris on Wednesday. They agreed that recent American state subsidy plans represent market distorting measures, according to people familiar with their discussions. The message from the lunch is that if the US doesn't scale back, then the EU will have to strike back. It would risk plunging transatlantic relations into a new trade war.