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Shifting alliances: the EU’s delicate balancing act on Ukraine
IT is not going to plan. The president of the Council of the European Union has gone off the reservation. Instead of parroting the practised words of his fellow president (of the European Commission ) Ursula von der Leyen — the woman best described as the …