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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

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen attend a press conference in Kyiv, Ukraine, Saturday, Nov. 4, 2023. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

Ukraine gets good news about its EU membership quest as Balkans countries slip back in the queue

By Lorne Cook - Associated Press

Soldiers of Ukraine's National Guard 1st brigade Bureviy (Hurricane) practice during combat training at a military training ground in the north of Ukraine Friday, Nov. 3, 2023. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)

At least 9 wounded in Russian attacks across Ukraine. European Commission head visits Kyiv

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FILE - Cars release exhaust fumes as children head to school in Frankfurt, Germany, Feb. 27, 2023. European Union member countries have watered down a proposal by the bloc's executive arm aimed at lowering vehicle emissions. The European Commission had proposed last year updated pollution standards for new combustion engine vehicles that are expected to remain on European roads well after the 27-nation bloc bans their sale in 2035, with the aim of lowering emissions from tailpipes, brakes and tires. (AP Photo/Michael Probst, File)

EU member states weaken proposal setting new emission standards for cars and vans

By Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

A Google sign is shown at the company's office in San Francisco, on April 12, 2023. European Union antitrust regulators on Wednesday, June 14, 2023, took aim at Google's lucrative digital advertising business, ordering the tech giant to sell off some of its ad services to address competition concerns. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)

Google should break up digital ad business over competition concerns, European regulators say

By Kelvin Chan and Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

FILE - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks during a panel discussion at the Global Citizen NOW Summit, on April 27, 2023, in New York. The European Union's executive arm proposed Thursday June 8, 2023 to create an ethics body that would set up common rules of conduct for institutions after the 27-nation bloc was rocked last year by a cash-for-influence scandal. Von der Leyen supported its creation when she took office back in 2019, and her services stepped up action after the so-called Qatargate scandal shattered the EU Parliament. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer, File)

EU Commission proposes common ethics body for all EU officials in wake of corruption scandal

By Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen addresses a media conference in Chisinau, Moldova, prior to the European Political Community Summit, May 31, 2023. Von der Leyen on Tuesday, June 6, says she has no interest in becoming the new leader of NATO as the trans-Atlantic military alliance seeks a successor to Jens Stoltenberg. (AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru, file)

EU chief Ursula von der Leyen says she isn’t interested in the top job at NATO

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A tree is surrounded by solar panels in Los Arcos, Navarra Province, northern Spain, on Feb. 24, 2023. Renewable energy investors who lost subsidies promised by Spain are heading to a London court to try to claw back $125 million from the government — a decadelong dispute with ramifications for clean energy financing across the European Union. (AP Photo/Alvaro Barrientos, File)

Spain clean energy case shakes confidence in EU investment

By Jennifer O'Mahony - Associated Press

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Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban speaks during a news conference with Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic in Belgrade, Serbia, Friday, Sept. 16, 2022. Orban is on a one day working visit to Serbia. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic)

EU proposes to suspend billions in funds to Hungary

By Lorne Cook - Associated Press

European Commissioner for Energy Kadri Simson speaks with the media as she arrives for an emergency meeting of EU energy ministers in Brussels on Tuesday, July 26, 2022. European Union governments Tuesday neared an agreement on rationing natural gas this winter to protect against any further supply cuts by Russia. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

EU reaches deal to ration gas amid Russian cut-off fears

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European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen announces a joint statement with Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida and European Council President Charles Michel at the prime minister's official residence in Tokyo Thursday, May 12, 2022. (Yoshikazu Tsuno/Pool Photo via AP)

EU rushes out $300 billion roadmap to ditch Russian energy

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FILE - Servicemen of Donetsk People's Republic Emergency Ministry work to defuse a Ukrainian mine in an area of the Mariupol Sea Port in Mariupol, in territory under the government of the Donetsk People's Republic, eastern Ukraine, on April 29, 2022. This photo was taken during a trip organized by the Russian Ministry of Defense. The European Commission is proposing to help Ukraine move its critical grain supplies to parts of the world at risk of food insecurity. The plan released Thursday, May 12, 2022, by the European Union’s executive arm urges rail, road and river routes to get around a Russian blockade of Black Sea ports. (AP Photo)

EU plan aims to help get wheat from Ukraine to the world

By Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban acknowledges cheering supporters during an election night rally in Budapest, Hungary, Sunday, April 3, 2022. Early partial results in Hungary's national election are showing a strong lead for the right-wing party of pro-Putin nationalist Orban as he seeks a fourth consecutive term. (AP Photo/Petr David Josek)

EU starts process to cut funding to Hungary over rule of law

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In this Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2019, file photo commuters wait in traffic during the morning rush hour in Brussels. The European Union on Thursday, July 8, 2021, has fined four major German car manufacturers one 1 billion US dollars in fines because they colluded to limit the development and roll-out of car emission control systems. (AP Photo/Francisco Seco, File)

EU fines 4 German car makers $1B over emission collusion

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Lawyers for the European Commission, left, and AstraZeneca right, prepare arguments during a hearing, European Commission vs AstraZeneca, at the main courthouse in Brussels, Wednesday, May 26, 2021. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

EU takes on AstraZeneca in court over COVID-19 vaccine deliveries

By Samuel Petrequin - Associated Press

EU insists dispute with AstraZeneca is only contractual

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press

European Union Health Commissioner Stella Kyriakides speaks during a media conference on an EU strategy on COVID-19 therapeutics at EU headquarters in Brussels, Thursday, May 6, 2021. (Kenzo Tribouillard, Pool via AP)

EU proposes joint approach to develop COVID-19 drugs

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press

FILE - In this March 18, 2021 file photo, empty tables are seen on a deserted square in normally very busy old town of Cologne, Germany, Thursday. The European Union statistics agency Eurostat announces first-quarter growth figures for the 19 countries that use the euro. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner)

European Union mulls move to welcome vaccinated travelers from U.S., other countries

By Tom Howell Jr. - The Washington Times

A visitor kneels in front of the Last Judgement fresco by the Italian Renaissance painter Michelangelo inside the Sistine Chapel of the Vatican Museums on the occasion of the museum's reopening, in Rome, Monday, May 3, 2021. The Vatican Museums reopened Monday to visitors after a shutdown following COVID-19 containment measures. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Attention travelers! EU proposes reopening external borders

By SAMUEL PETREQUIN - Associated Press