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20 hours agoEU set to sign off 90bn loan for Ukraine and fresh Russia sanctions Europe live
EU leaders will discuss the Middle East, the next budget, and unblock a loan for Ukraine and sanctions against Russia.
Sinn Féin is standing over comments by its finance spokesman, Pearse Doherty, linking the withdrawal of cost-of-living payments to Ireland's support for Ukraine, which have drawn sharp criticism.
On Wednesday Brussels is due to outline the terms of the 90bn loan it has promised to Ukraine, amid internal tensions over whether Kyiv can use the money to buy US as well as EU weapons. On the same day, the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio, is due to meet ministers from Denmark and Greenland, as Donald Trump continues to insist that the US will take ownership of the latter one way or another.