European Commission president Ursula von der Leyen said: 'We agreed on the ‘what’ – that is the reparations loans. And we have to work on the ‘how’ – how we make it possible.' Photograph: Frederick Florin/AFP via Getty Images
The funny thing about red lines set out by the European Union’s top politicians is how they can seem so rigid until they need to be a bit elastic – then watch them stretch.
A Brussels summit of the heads of the 27 capitals broke up without agreement on a legally creative plan to fund a loan for Ukraine by tapping €185 billion of Russian state cash, frozen in Europe thanks to economic s
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