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————————————————————————————————————— “Europe’s Independence Moment”. That was the European Commission’s tagline for Ursula von der Leyen’s annual address on the state of the European Union.

Hours before, Russia carried out its biggest breach yet of EU & NATO airspace. A moment of violation in which for the first time Polish and Dutch planes shot down Russian drones over Polish territo

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