Good morning from the Financial Times.
Today is Tuesday, February 25th, and this is your FT news briefing.
The US and Europe squared off at the UN yesterday
and Germany's incoming leader has a pretty big to do list.
Plus lots of US companies are putting their sustainability projects on the back burner.
But not the commodities giant Admission.
I'm Marc Filippino and here's the news you need to start your day.
The US voted against a UN resolution condemning Russia's full scale invasion of Ukraine yesterday.
Since Donald Trump returned to the White House,
the US has almost done a complete 180 on its stance on the conflict.
Yesterday's vote was the latest move in that turnaround.
Trump has been trying to negotiate with Moscow to end the war.
He said yesterday that he was open to forging an economic deal with Russia.
Friedrich Merz might have just won Germany's high stakes election,
but he won't have a ton of time to celebrate.
The leader of the Christian Democrats has a lot on his plate.
He needs to pull his country out of its economic slump,
wrangle a divided Europe and figure out how to support Ukraine.
But in order to do all of that, Merz will first have to tackle something called the debt break.
DFT's Laura Patel joins me now from Berlin to explain.