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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivers his speech after he was re-elected as party president at the election of officials congress of the ruling Hungarian Fidesz party in Budapest, Hungary, Saturday, Nov. 18, 2023. (Szilard Koszticsak/MTI via AP)

Hungarian PM Viktor Orban demands Ukraine’s EU membership be taken off summit agenda

By Lorne Cook - Associated Press

Europe’s world-leading artificial intelligence rules are facing a do-or-die moment

By Kelvin Chan - Associated Press

In this grab taken from video, climate activists take part in a march, in Brussels, Sunday, Dec. 3, 2023. Thousands of people have marched through the center of Brussels in a boisterous rally highlighting the dangers of climate change, as the COP28 climate summit draws to an end in the United Arab Emirates. (AP)

Thousands of climate change activists hold boisterous protest march in Brussels with serious message

Associated Press

Latvia's Foreign Minister Krisjanis Karins talks to journalists during a meeting of NATO foreign ministers at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2023. NATO foreign ministers on Tuesday begin a two-day meeting in which the alliance will reaffirm its support for Ukraine's defense against Russia's invasion, explore ways of easing tensions between Kosovo and Serbia and look at preparations for NATO's 75th anniversary next year. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

Latvia’s chief diplomat pursues NATO’s top job, saying a clear vision on Russia is needed

By Lorne Cook - Associated Press

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken, speaks during an informal meeting of the North Atlantic Council in Foreign Ministers' session in Berlin, Germany, May 15, 2022. Blinken is turning his attention to Ukraine, NATO and the Western Balkans after weeks of intense focus on Israel’s war against Hamas in Gaza. Amid signs that a cease-fire agreement between Israel and Hamas due to expire on Monday may be extended, Blinken departs for Brussels where he will attend a NATO foreign ministers meeting at which the alliance will reaffirm its support for Ukraine’s defense against Russia’s invasion. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn, File)

Ukraine and the Western Balkans top Blinken’s agenda for NATO foreign ministers meeting in Brussels

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrives board his aircraft prior to departure, Monday, Nov. 27, 2023, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., as he travels to Brussels for a NATO Foreign Ministers meeting. (Saul Loeb/Pool via AP)

Blinken to return to Israel as U.S. hopes to see further extensions of Gaza cease-fire

By Matthew Lee - Associated Press

A government billboard reading "Let's not dance to their tune" is seen with portraits of Alex Soros and Ursula von der Leyen in downtown Budapest, Hungary, Monday, Nov. 20, 2023. A countrywide billboard campaign that flooded the streets of Hungary this week takes aim at the head of the European Union's executive Ursula von der Leyen, the start of an election campaign that marks an escalation of tensions between the country's right-wing government and the EU. (AP Photo/Denes Erdos)

An anti-European Union billboard campaign in Hungary turns up tensions with the Orban government

By Justin Spike - Associated Press

FILE - Tourists look at the illuminated Eiffel Tower in Paris, on June 13, 2013. A culinary issue erupted as the European Parliament prepares to vote on Wednesday, Nov. 22, 2023, on a proposal about packaging waste. Some French cheese producers feared that its language would mean their delectable, pungent Camembert will no longer be encased in wooden boxes. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus, File)

France remains ‘le grand fromage’ in the European Union, and Camembert remains in a wooden box

By Raf Casert - Associated Press

Leader of the Polish Civic Coalition Donald Tusk, left, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen walk off the podium after addressing a media conference at EU headquarters in Brussels, Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

Poland set to get more than 5 billion euros in EU money after commission approves recovery plan

By Samuel Petrequin and Vanessa Gera - Associated Press

Italy's Premier Giorgia Meloni, right, and Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama, left, shake hands during a meeting in Rome, Italy, Monday, Nov. 6, 2023. (Roberto Monaldo/LaPresse via AP)

Migration experts say Italy’s deal to have Albania house asylum-seekers violates international law

By Colleen Barry and Trisha Thomas - Associated Press

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban arrives for the 2nd day of the Europe Summit in Granada, Spain, Friday, Oct. 6, 2023. European Union leaders have pledged Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy their unwavering support. On Friday, they will face one of their worst political headaches on a key commitment. How and when to welcome debt-laden and war-battered Ukraine into the bloc. (AP Photo/Fermin Rodriguez)

Orban blasts the European Union on the anniversary of Hungary’s 1956 anti-Soviet uprising

By Justin Spike - Associated Press

Supporters lit their mobile phones lights after suspension of the Euro 2024 group F qualifying soccer match between Belgium and Sweden at the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels, Monday, Oct. 16, 2023. Two Swedes were killed in a shooting late Monday in central Brussels, police said, prompting Belgium's prime minister and senior Cabinet minister to hunker down at their crisis center for an emergency meeting. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

UEFA says result of Belgium-Sweden soccer qualifier will stand after Brussels shooting

By Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

Sweden's Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson, left, and Belgium's Prime Minister Alexander De Croo, right, lay a floral tribute and a Swedish soccer jersey on the pavement during a commemoration for the victims of a shooting in the center of Brussels, Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2023. Police in Belgium on Tuesday shot dead a suspected Tunisian extremist accused of killing two Swedish soccer fans in a brazen attack on a Brussels street. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Deadly attack in Belgium ignites fierce debate on failures of deportation policy

By Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

Belgian police stand behind a cordoned-off area close to where a suspected Tunisian extremist has been shot dead hours after a manhunt looking for him Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. Police in Belgium have shot dead a suspected Tunisian extremist accused of killing two Swedish soccer fans in a brazen attack on a Brussels street before disappearing into the night on Monday. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

Police shoot dead suspected extremist accused of killing 2 Swedish soccer fans on a Brussels street

By Lorne Cook, Sylvain Plazy and Raf Casert - Associated Press

French President Emmanuel Macron attends a joint a press conference with Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama in Tirana, Albania, Tuesday, Oct. 17, 2023. French President Emmanuel Macron continues his two-day visit to Tirana meeting with the Albanian president and prime minister. (AP Photo/Franc Zhurda)

EU leaders seek harmony at a virtual summit after cacophony over response to the Israel-Hamas war

By Raf Casert and Lorne Cook - Associated Press

Sweden supporters wait on the stands after suspension of the Euro 2024 group F qualifying soccer match between Belgium and Sweden at the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels, Monday, Oct. 16, 2023. The match was abandoned at halftime after two Swedes were killed in a shooting in central Brussels before kickoff. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

Sweden players take overnight flight home and return to clubs after deadly shooting in Belgium

By Samuel Petrequin and Steve Douglas - Associated Press

Supporters are on the stands after suspension of the Euro 2024 group F qualifying soccer match between Belgium and Sweden at the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels, Monday, Oct. 16, 2023. The match was abandoned at halftime after two Swedes were killed in a shooting in central Brussels before kickoff. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

Soccer match between Belgium, Sweden suspended after gunman kills two Swedes in Brussels

By Samuel Petrequin and Steve Douglas - Associated Press

Police cordon off an area where a shooting took place in the center of Brussels, Monday, Oct. 16, 2023. Belgian police say that two people are dead in central Brussels after several shots were fired. (AP Photo/Nicolas Landemard)

Gunman kills 2 Swedes in Brussels, prompting terror alert and halt of Belgium-Sweden soccer match

By Sylvain Plazy, Raf Casert and Lorne Cook - Associated Press

Israeli tanks head towards the Gaza Strip border in southern Israel on Thursday, Oct.12, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)

Blinken cautions Israel against strike on Gaza civilians; shaken by images of atrocities

By David R. Sands and Mike Glenn - The Washington Times

A small boat with migrants arrives at La Restinga on the Canary island of El Hierro, Spain, on Wednesday Oct. 4, 2023. EU conversations came as Spain's Marine Rescue service reported Friday Oct. 6, 2023 it had intercepted 262 migrants in three boats approaching the Canary Islands located off the northwest coast of Africa. This week alone, the seven-island archipelago's tiny El Hierro Island, which has a population of some 10,000, has taken in more than 1,200 migrants arriving in open wooden boats that are believed to have departed from Senegal. (Europa Press via AP)

Rifts in Europe over irregular migration remain even after ‘success’ of new EU deal

By Joseph Wilson and Renata Brito - Associated Press