London environmental and renewable energy advocates have slammed the Conservative Party’s plan to roll back two renewable energy programs, calling the move “short-sighted and regressive.”

Finance leaders from the world’s largest economies signaled optimism on Friday that they could reach a joint position on trade and other global challenges, despite tensions stemming from U.S. President Donald Trump’s tariff policies.

Real wages in Germany in the first quarter rose by 3.8 percent on the same quarter of last year, the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) said Wednesday. It was the strongest year-on-year growth since the time series began in 2008.