Pipelines, Precedents and Pressure Points

Ukraine reopens the Druzhba pipeline to unlock a €90bn EU loan — while GCHQ's cyber chief, speaking in Glasgow, warns of escalating Russian hybrid attacks hitting infrastructure from Scandinavia to Britain. The EU's top court strikes down Hungary's anti-LGBTQ law in the bloc's largest ever human rights case. Russia's Shoigu uses ominously familiar language about 'threatened' Russians in Moldova's Transnistria. And Albania's ambassador to the UK tells Westminster and Fleet Street to stop scapegoating his community.