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Polish president seeks poll boost with Trump meet

Bloomberg Polish President Andrzej Duda is hoping to boost his re-election bid by meeting Donald Trump in Washington next week, just four days before the east European nation’s ballot. Duda has long played up what he calls his “special relationship” with Trump, who gave a major foreign-policy speech in Warsaw in 2017. Additional security guarantees from the US at the ...

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To protect Putin from Covid-19, Russia isolates war veterans

Bloomberg World War II veterans selected to sit with President Vladimir Putin at next week’s Red Square military parade are being kept in isolation at a health resort as part of measures to protect him from possible exposure to the coronavirus. Nearly 80 veterans were brought to the resort outside Moscow for 14 days before the June 24 parade, when ...

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Hungary loses EU clash over NGO dispute

Bloomberg Hungarian PM Viktor Orban lost a court fight with the European Union over controversial curbs on foreign-funded non-governmental organisations and groups linked to financier George Soros. The Hungarian law imposed “discriminatory and unjustified restrictions on foreign donations to civil society organisations,” the EU Court of Justice in Luxembourg said in a final ruling on Thursday. The case follows a ...

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