Hello readers. Angela Skujins here ringing out the week with your Friday newsletter.
Before we dive in, news broke early this morning that a Russian drone crashed into an apartment building in eastern Romania, injuring two people.
"These are not mistakes – these are provocations," Polish Undersecretary of State at the Ministry of Economic Development and Technology Michał Baranowskijust told Euronews' Europe Today programme.
"We are no longer in peace," he added, referring to the drone incursions in his country last year, as well as the others rocking the Baltics in recent weeks. Watch.
The big stories driving Brussels’ agenda today is how the bloc decides to speak to Beijing over thorny trade disputes, and the closely watched – and now confirmed – meeting between Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar’s European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen.
