Germany is open to taking further steps to utilise interest generated from frozen Russian assets for the benefit of Ukraine, Finance Minister Christian Lindner said on Friday. However, this should not have any “legally disadvantageous or economically risky consequences,” Lindner told a meeting in northern Italy of finance ministers of the Group of Seven (G7) industrialized democracies. There was a shared openness on the part of European G7 members to scrutinize a corresponding US proposal to this effect, he said. But negotiations were still a long way off because many unresolved issues remain,…