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  "publishedAt": "2026-06-23T05:30:00.000Z",
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    "Ukraine",
    "Brexit",
    "Moldova",
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  "textContent": "The EU’s door to the east is once again ajar, but the partner that spent two decades holding it wide open for newcomers is no longer inside. Taras Kachka, Ukraine’s deputy prime minister for European integration, called it “a real Rubicon”. On the evening of June 15, in a conference room in Luxembourg, he and […]\n\nAn absent friend was originally published on Emerging Europe.",
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