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Hungarian PM lashes out at Brussels for holding back billions of euros....

After Ukraine, the Kremlin’s next targets could be Moldova and the Baltic countries, Belgian army chief Michel Hofman has warned....

On Wednesday, Poland’s new government moved to seize control of the country’s publicly owned television, radio and news agency from loyalists to the Law and Justice (PiS) party, which lost power following the October 15 parliamentary election. Duda was a PiS member and is still loyal to the party.

Vladimir Putin would prefer an American leader who understands the ‘importance of dialogue,’ Kremlin spokesman says....

But this won’t compare to Europe which trolls itself by buying russian gas and oil still, and burning more of coal than ever.

What bad news? Why? Hasn’t UA been winning all along, for 1.5 years?

Ukraine’s security service blew up a railway connection linking Russia to China, in a clandestine strike carried out deep into enemy territory, with pro-Kremlin media reporting that investigators have opened a criminal case into a “terrorist attack.”...

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg warned that the Western military alliance should be ready for bad news from the Ukrainian front as Kyiv continues to defend against Russia’s all-out invasion....

Argentina says it intends to leave decisions on the trade deal to incoming President Javier Milei, who has threatened to quit Mercosur....

‘I would think that you would notice that you’re dragging an anchor behind you for hundreds of kilometers,’ says minister.

BRUSSELS — As the investigation into damage to Baltic Sea critical infrastructure continues, Finland’s Minister of European Affairs Anders Adlercreutz said it’s hard to believe sabotage to the undersea gas pipeline was accidental — or that it happened without Beijing’s knowledge....

Russia is boosting the number of troops in its military for the second time in 15 months, citing the war in Ukraine and the expansion of the NATO defense alliance....

The anti-Islam, euroskeptic radical Geert Wilders is projected to be the shock winner of the Dutch election....

A dramatic surge in the number of migrants from Africa and the Middle East arriving on the EU’s eastern frontier are part of a “blatant hybrid attack” orchestrated by Moscow, Estonia’s foreign minister said, warning that crossings from Russia could be banned altogether....

The European Commission has decided to stop advertising on social media platform X, owned by Elon Musk, over “widespread concerns relating to the spread of disinformation,” according to an internal note obtained by POLITICO’s Brussels Playbook....

Ads on Musk-owned social media site risk causing ‘reputational damage’ to the EU, its executive says in internal note.