Bartosz Brzeziński

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POLITICO Europe · Analysis How Russian attacks, European protectionism and drought are trapping Ukraine’s vital grain Kyiv wants the help of EU countries as Black Sea missile strikes choke its grain exports, but capitals fear the ire of their own farmers.

POLITICO Europe · Feature Europe needs corn. Ukraine has it. But US farmers are poised to get the business. Drought has left Europe hunting for millions more tons of corn just as Russia chokes off Ukraine’s cheapest route to market, creating an unlikely opening for the American farm belt.

POLITICO Europe · Feature EU budget must bankroll Europe’s independence, von der Leyen says Commission president’s pitch for a €2 trillion spending plan comes as the bloc weighs how to reduce its reliance on the U.S. and China — and faces a German-led push for hundreds of billions of euros in cuts.

POLITICO Europe · Feature Europe’s crisis reserves weren’t meant for this kind of drought Dry seasons have become a fixture of European farming. The EU’s crisis tools still treat them as a surprise.

POLITICO Europe · Analysis Watch out Brussels and Kyiv, Poland’s conservatives are veering right The rupture of Law and Justice is strengthening hardline parties that oppose Ukraine’s EU membership and may hold the key to Poland’s next government.

POLITICO Europe · Dispatch Tusk celebrates ‘no Russians in the room’ at EU summit — then winks at Fico The Polish prime minister’s pointed remark about EU unity on Russia was underlined by an awkwardly timed cameo from his Slovak counterpart.