Lawmakers split on Ukraine’s new NATO bid

Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday stopped short of backing Ukraine’s request for an “accelerated accession” to join NATO, hours after President Volodymyr Zelenskyy announced the bid in response to Moscow declaring it had annexed four regions of Ukraine. When asked by POLITICO if she backed Ukraine’s NATO accession, Pelosi declined to explicitly endorse it, but said she […]

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Groundhog Day: It’s another Bulgarian election

Bulgaria will hold its fourth election in 18 months on Sunday, but there is little sign that the country is about to break its entrenched political impasse. This prospect of deadlock is bad news for a country wrestling with the daunting challenges of high-level corruption, widespread Russian influence and swingeing inflation in the run-up to […]

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