EU nations’ intelligence services are analysing scenarios that could grip Moscow. Read more at straitstimes.com.
“Putin has lost the monopoly of force,” Mr Borrell said, adding that “I suppose that Putin will be in cleaning mode internally, and a more assertive mode”.
Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, in Brussels for the summit, rejected accusations by some of the boat’s survivors that Greece’s coast guard caused the capsizing by tying a rope to their vessel and trying to tow it away from Greece at high speed.He said the coast guard’s priority is “not just to protect the external borders of the European Union but to assist everyone who’s actually at risk of drowning”.
Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki was indignant that, “in the case of a refugee from the Middle East who isn’t accepted, we have to pay a penalty of 20,000 euros or more”.
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