Estonia

EU countries want a change in the proposal, worried that a gas buying program designed to exclude Russia may end up allowing Moscow’s gas in through the back door.

‘It is an excuse to waste time in parliament,’ Estonian PM says.

Finally some EPP vows that will stick.

Eastern EU countries want Russian mercenaries gone from Belarus. The country’s ruler isn’t having any of it.

Estonian president condemns prime minister as scandal snowballs.

Bloc hunts for new export routes after Russia kills Black Sea grain deal — but all are logistically challenging and come at a cost.

Warsaw insists it will act alone if Brussels fails to extend import restrictions on Ukrainian agricultural products.

Rishi Sunak says only that his government has a ‘long track record’ of supporting Estonia.

The figure is higher than 2022, however, and spending in Europe and Canada jumped 8.3 percent.

Law enforcers are on the back foot as the drug barons ‘want to decide on big issues in our society,’ says Europol boss Catherine De Bolle.

With Russia teetering on the brink, European leaders are set to soften their approach to China at a summit in Brussels.

‘The monster that Putin created with Wagner is biting him now,’ Josep Borrell adds.

Latvia has suspended entry to the country from Russia in response to the mutiny.

Although Finland’s Åland archipelago is strategically located in the Baltic Sea, an agreement prevents any military presence there — but perhaps this could change.

‘I am proud of Estonia,’ says PM Kaja Kallas.

‘We need common rules that are the same for everyone,’ German finance minister says.

NATO’s European members are ramping up spending, but defense companies want contracts before committing to expensive expansions.

The country’s foreign minister blacklisted Patriarch Kirill on a renewed Magnitsky list.

A high-profile European delegation is heading to the Shangri-La Dialogue to push Asian countries on the war in Ukraine.

Dmitry Medvedev argues U.K. is ‘de facto leading an undeclared war against Russia.’