| Free Trillion | Germany is getting €1 trillion in additional funding virtually for free after bond markets reacted positively to its "historic" spending bill, Deutsche Bank Chairman Alexander Wynaendts said. Now it needs to spend the money wisely and advance structural reforms to ensure it stays that way, he added. Arrest Warrant | Bosnia-Herzegovina's top court issued an international arrest notice for the country's Serb leader, escalating a conflict with a controversial figure who has threatened to secede from the Balkan nation. Milorad Dodik, the leader of Republika Srpska, Bosnia's ethnic-Serb dominated entity, took steps this month to sever ties with the central government in Sarajevo, stoking concern in Brussels. Carbon Conundrum | France has proposed fine-tuning the design of the EU's carbon markets to avoid high prices and volatility. At a meeting of EU environment ministers in Brussels, the country called for bolstering price-stabilization mechanisms in the bloc's new planned carbon market. Alongside Italy, the country also called for changes to the EU's carbon levy. Jail Sought | French prosecutors said that ex-President Nicolas Sarkozy should be found guilty and sent to jail for seven years over allegations his 2007 winning campaign was covertly funded by millions of euros from the late Moammar Qaddafi's regime. The Paris criminal court is expected to rule in the coming months. Here to Stay | ECB Governing Council member Peter Kazimir may retain his post for some time, despite efforts in his homeland of Slovakia to replace him. The country's two biggest ruling parties are divided on whether he should be reappointed for a second six-year term when his current stint June 1, leaving a potential stalemate. | 
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