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Pragmatic or pointless? Europe’s rift over whether to pick up the phone to Putin
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SignalsMonitor is following this as a politics story. The Guardian UK is the outlet attached so far. The first report grouped here was at 29 Oct 2026, 12:55 UTC. The headline in use is “Pragmatic or pointless? Europe’s rift over whether to pick up the phone to Putin”. This note is SignalsMonitor's own briefing, not the publisher's article.
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With no single European representative negotiating directly with Moscow, some leaders are establishing their own channels – with messy results The Nordic countries rarely fall out in public over foreign policy, least of all over Russia. But a 90-minute phone call this week to Vladimir Putin by the leaders of…
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Pragmatic or pointless? Europe’s rift over whether to pick up the phone to Putin
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