⚡️🇪🇺🇺🇦🇨🇳 — EU leaders ended their Brussels summit without a budget agreement, amid divisions over energy and migration, but backed Zelenskyy and strengthened plans for trade defences against China. — Euronews

➡️ EU leaders maintained a unified front on Kyiv by pledging indefinite Russia sanctions and formally condemning the Trump-Putin diesel deal, despite Bulgaria’s prime minister breaking ranks to support it. President Zelenskyy requested an additional €70bn in financial and military aid for 2027, exceeding the baseline €90bn loan plan for 2026–27. The European Commission is now tasked with drafting a formal mechanism to cover this funding gap.

➡️ A hardline 20-country bloc led by Italy, Denmark, and the Netherlands is aggressively pushing for emergency powers to suspend asylum applications during crises. This restrictive axis is exposing deep ideological fractures within the EU, drawing direct opposition from France and Spain, and signaling a major, structural tightening of European border policy.

➡️ Despite a superficial agreement on hybrid-car imports, Brussels directed the Commission to deploy immediate, unilateral trade safeguards—including quotas and tariffs—to shield the chemical and machinery sectors from Chinese dumping. The emergency actions are triggered by hard data: a ~€360bn EU trade deficit with Beijing and a 25% YoY surge in Chinese exports. France and Germany are accelerating a rapid-response instrument to counter Beijing's subsidies, backed by a solidarity fund to absorb inevitable Chinese economic retaliation.

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