EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas told the European Parliament that American negotiators have spent nearly two years trying to push Ukraine into a "surrender on Putin's terms", as a new round of peace talks opened in Oslo. She said Ukraine would have capitulated without Europe's continued support, and argued Europe needs its own seat at the table to balance increasingly Moscow-leaning US positions. Officials from the European Commission, NATO, Germany, France, the UK and Poland travelled to the Oslo talks.
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Euronews · Tuesday, 20 October 2026
The European Commission presented a revised Arctic strategy on Tuesday, led by Ursula von der Leyen and Kaja Kallas, that puts security and resilience ahead of climate and economic goals for the first time. It proposes a maritime security hub to track Arctic shipping, more icebreakers, and a fibre-optic cable linking Greenland to Europe. Kallas cited rising Russian military activity, including drone incursions and cable sabotage, while several measures, among them the Greenland cable, aim to reduce dependence on the United States amid President Trump's repeated calls to take control of the Danish territory.
Poland's lower house, the Sejm, voted on Tuesday for two bills, one allowing abortion in cases of foetal abnormality and one decriminalising helping someone obtain an abortion. The first passed in full, 217 votes to 213, and the second with amendments, 233 to 203. President Karol Nawrocki has signalled he will block the liberalisation of the abortion law that the centrist government of Donald Tusk supports.
