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EU summit attempts to tackle soaring energy prices, rule of law crisis with Poland, migration, and more

EU leaders were in Brussels on Thursday and Friday for a European Council summit, with soaring energy prices and a rule-of-law dispute with Poland at the top of the agenda. Other topics on the agenda included discussions over migration, with the EU condemning the use of migration as a pressure tool, resurgent EU coronavirus hot spots, and vaccine donations. The summit also saw German Chancellor Angela Merkel attend her 107th — and almost certainly final — meeting of the European Council, with EU leaders giving Merkel a standing ovation at the end of the two-day summit. Yannis Palaiologos, Kathimerini’s Brussels correspondent, joins us on The Greek Current to analyze the main takeaways from this summit.

You can read the articles we discuss on our podcast here: 

In EU leaders’ toolbox: Many wrenches, few quick fixes

EU condemns use of migration as pressure tool

‘You are a monument’: EU leaders hail Angela Merkel at ‘final’ summit

Biden urged to meet with Ecumenical Patriarch

Patriarch to meet Biden, Blinken and Pelosi

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