New threat to Black Sea shipping: Emerging Europe this week - Emerging Europe

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : The European Commission is preparing to release billions of euros in EU funds to Hungary currently frozen because of rule of law concerns, in a move that could secure Budapest's support for an increase to the bloc's budget and significant financial assistance to Ukraine.
41% : Fico, who is in poll position to form a coalition government, was booted out of government amid an anti-corruption uprising in 2018 but has now surged to victory by proposing to end military support to its neighbour Ukraine and criticising the EU's sanctions on Russia, setting off alarm bells in Kyiv and Brussels.
35% : The Bulgarian government this week promised coal workers -- who have been blocking roads in protest -- that it would not take any administrative decisions to close coal-fired power stations until 2038, leaving the matter entirely to the free market.

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