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Alexandra Brzozowski

Alexandra Brzozowski is a Brussels-based correspondent covering the EU and NATO. She focuses on Europe’s foreign and security policy and the bloc's enlargement. She has reported extensively from across Europe’s neighbourhood and its borderlands for a range of international outlets, including serving as Euractiv’s chief diplomatic correspondent.

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EU remains mute on secondary tariffs, eyes Trump’s next move

by Alexandra Brzozowski
BRUSSELS, Belgium — The European Union said it was preparing the next sanctions package on Moscow ahead of looming US-Russia peace talks. The last-minute virtual talks came just ahead of U.S. President Donald Trump’s Alaska meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Aug. 15, which had spooked Kyiv’s Western allies as to what concessions Washington would be willing to make. "We will work on a 19th package of sanctions," EU’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas said on Aug. 11, after an extraordinary