The European Union was one step away from opening its first negotiating cluster with Ukraine despite Hungary's blockade – but the decision, planned for 18 July, never came to fruition. Source: an article by European Pravda (English translation coming soon) Details: European Pravda has learned that a legally unconventional but potentially effective

"China has an influence on Russia, like the European Union has an influence on Ukraine," European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy had promised he would propose a new bill on anti-graft agencies just a day after having approved the controversial reforms.

European Union countries have expressed broad support for one round of 30% retaliatory tariffs if the United States does not reach a trade deal with the EU.

The shift to a foreign military sales model is explicitly intended to invigorate the U.S. defense industrial base.

Ukraine’s Deputy Prime Minister for European Integration Taras Kachka has assured Gert Jan Koopman, Director-General for Enlargement and Eastern Neighbourhood (DG ENEST) within the European Commission,

The deal stipulates that the U.S. will deliver weapons to the EU, which will handle distribution among member states, with most of the arms expected to go to Ukraine.

Ukraine’s new prime minister said she’s likely to seek more financing from the International Monetary Fund as she sets out to shore up the nation’s fiscal needs with no end in sight to Russia’s war.