Author: Sam Petrequin
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EU leaders divided on gas price cap at energy crisis summit
BRUSSELS • European Union leaders stood divided Thursday on whether, and how, the bloc could impose a gas price cap to contain the energy crisis fueled by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine and his strategy to choke off gas supplies to the bloc at will. And, for once, the traditional driving duo of…
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European Union makes Ukraine a candidate for EU membership
BRUSSELS • The European Union agreed Thursday to put Ukraine on a path toward EU membership, acting with uncharacteristic speed and unity to pull the embattled country further from Russia’s influence and bind it more closely to the West. Meeting at a summit in Brussels, leaders of the EU’s 27 nations mustered the required unanimous…