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When the Ukrainian Army begins pushing entrenched Russian adversaries out of defensive positions in the Donbas region during the initial phases, recapturing and liberating sovereign territory, the Biden administration will face a new dilemma. Will Biden support Ukrainian ground forces in the military pursuit of a retreating Russian army that attempts to escape annihilation by seeking sanctuary on the Russian side of the border? Will he support artillery and air strikes on the Russian side of the border? Following the May 22 Belgorod raid by elements of the pro-Ukrainian Russian Volunteer Corps and the Freedom of Russia Legion, both composed...

The Ukraine lobby is the latest example of a foreign government and its American supporters having a dangerously outsize impact on U.S. policy and the overall public perspective. Activists have attempted to harass and silence opponents of the fawning U.S. support for Volodymyr Zelensky’s government. At times, Ukraine and its Western backers have fostered a campaign of outright neo-McCarthyism against critics, utterly chilling debate regarding policy toward Kyiv.

The European Commission decided to ask Italy to change its 2019 budget plan and to submit the new version by November 13. However, back in Rome, government members have said they will not change their spending plans. The European Commission will announce on November 21, an opinion on all of the euro zone's draft budgets. If there is no change in the budget plan, Brussels could eventually open an excessive deficit procedure (EDP) — a legal step that aims to help countries respecting European fiscal rules and putting their finances back on track. Pierre Moscovici, commissioner for economic affairs, told...

The law, which came into force at midnight, mandates that all Supreme Court judges over the age of 65 must retire and will force 27 of the 72 judges off the bench, according to the European Union. "My presence here is not about politics, I am here to protect the rule of law," Gersdorf, who is 65, said at the court's entrance... ...Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki, insists that the measures are needed and will strengthen democracy. "Each EU state has the right to shape their legal system according to their own traditions," Morawiecki told the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France,...

(IsraelNN.com) The family of Techiya Bloomberg, 35, who was murdered in a terror attack on 5 August 2001, is filing a lawsuit against the European Union this morning in the Tel Aviv District Court for funding the PA. Techiya, the mother of five, was five months pregnant at the time of the attack. Her husband Steven and daughter Tzippi, 14, were seriously wounded in the attack. Security forces in October arrested Farid Azouni, a PA policeman, who was charged with taking part in the shooting attack. Two months later, Samar Abu Hania was apprehended for planning the fatal attack. He...