EU leaders postponed a seven-year budget agreement as Germany sought spending cuts and France promoted new levies on digital services, crypto assets and online gambling.
Ukraine will meet Trump envoys Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff on a new war-ending plan as Zelensky urges sanctions, Starlink access and leverage over Russia.
Russian attacks on Sept. 30 damaged Kyiv warehouses, an Odessa business center and homes, while Ukraine prepared new power restrictions.
Russian strikes on Kyiv killed two people and injured six, damaging residential areas and medical property, including a maternity hospital parking lot.
Macron is seeking an EU-wide ban on social media use by children under 15 after France’s Constitutional Council blocked a national law.
The EU plans to restrict Microsoft, Google, and Amazon from public cloud tenders in strategic sectors to reduce dependence on US tech firms amid data sovereignty concerns.