Morning Brussels. Angela Skujins here guiding you through your Wednesday.
The big topics driving the day: Exploring whether Polish-Ukrainian relations can recover before the upcoming Ukraine Recovery Conference, and a Taliban wash-up, with European Commissioner Magnus Brunner expected to answer serious questions.
Up first: Kyiv-Warsaw bristle. After several days of speculation, Ukraine finally confirmed who from the country’s senior political elite will be present for the Ukraine Recovery Conference on 25–26 June in Gdańsk, Poland.
This is a key event in Europe’s political agenda aimed at drumming up support for the country’s reconstruction process when and if Russia’s full-scale invasion ends.
But the event in its grandiosity has almost been eclipsed by the bitter fighting between the capitals regarding a medal, the renaming of a military unit and a significant amount of history.
