Nicholas Vinocur

Hungarian Foreign Minister Anita Orbán said several days of talks with Brussels over the frozen funds had already taken place at expert level in recent days.

Lithuania's foreign minister says the EU loan deal only postponed the fight over whether to tap frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine and pressure Moscow.

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Within months Europe could see the first concrete steps toward deporting migrants who have been denied the right to stay in the EU.

A recent increase in incursions into Baltic airspace has bolstered interest in what Kyiv has learned in more than four years of war with Moscow.

Europe is still reeling from the recent drone incursions into Baltic airspace.

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Foreign Minister Espen Barth Eide’s stance clashes with that of EU top diplomat Kaja Kallas, who characterized direct negotiations with Putin as a “trap.”

The Hungarian leader has made the release of EU money central to his post-Orbán reset, but the Commission wants him to deliver on reforms first.

The EU is edging closer to one of its most controversial migration policies yet: sending failed asylum seekers to return hubs outside the bloc.