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[Featured] #UkraineWar: #Trump says he will talk to #Putin on Tuesday as he pushes for end to #Ukraine war, by Chris Megerian | Associated Press 

#UkraineWar: #Meloni balances #EU and #US interests in “coalition of the willing” summit discussion, by Alessia Peretti | Euractiv

#EUDefence: The end of #Europe’s ‘peace dividend’ - #Defence spending at 3.5% of GDP would have cost #EU an extra nearly $390bn a year since end of Cold War, by Valentina Romei, Sam Fleming and Alan Smith | Financial Times 

[Featured] #Trade: The #US-#European tariff conflict is jeopardising transatlantic business worth $9.5 trillion annually - the American Chamber of Commerce to the EU warned on Monday, by Philip Blenkinsop | Reuters 

#Tech: #Europeans are missing out on #5G - data shows, by Mathieu Pollet and Giovanna Coi | Politico

#EUEconomy: #Airbus and others call for sovereign infrastructure fund buy #European, by Foo Yun Chee | Reuters

[Opinion] #EUPolitics: The end of #Germany’s economic delusions? Rigid dogmatism should be replaced with more pragmatic management of fiscal and monetary affairs, argues Katharina Pistor | Project Syndicate

[Analysis] #EUPolitics: The rise of the #AfD and the choice of radicalism, by Valérie Dubslaf | Ifri - Institut français des relations internationales  

[Featured] #RuleOfLaw: Rule of law deteriorates across the EU, report finds. Democracy indexes related to the justice system, #Anticorruption and #MediaFreedom are facing persistent and systemic challenges, by Maria Psara | Euronews

#EUPolitics & #RuleOfLaw: #Huawei bribery scandal: What we know so far. #China’s #5G darling and the #EuropeanParliament are caught in a sprawling corruption probe in Belgium | Politico

[Opinion] #WesternBalkans: The Western Balkans has long served as #Europe’s testing ground - Today it could become the region where #Europe redefines itself, argues Arminka Helić | Politico

[Video] #WesternBalkans: #Belgrade - Hundreds of thousands demand gov't accountability in one of #Serbia's largest rallies ever | Deutsche Welle 

[Analysis] #GlobalEurope: #US vs. #EU development approach - One is dead, what’s next for the other? By Gemma Pinyol Puig | ECDPM 🌍

#MiddleEast: #Brussels hosts #Syrian foreign minister for talks on country’s political and economic transition, by Mared Gwyn Jones | Euronews