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During a state visit to Sweden, French President Emmnauel Macron urges Europe to take 'bold' decisions to support Ukraine, regardless of what the US decides. While the US has sent tens of billions of dollars in aid to Ukraine since the Russian invasion in February 2022, Republican lawmakers are growing reluctant to keep supporting Kyiv, saying it lacks a clear end game as the fighting grinds on. SOUNDBITE
At a press conference following the EU summit, French President Emmanuel Macron says he expects Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban "to behave like a European and not hold political progress hostage". Macron's comments come after Orban, Russia's biggest ally in the EU, blocked the approval of 50 billion euros of aid to Ukraine. SOUNDBITE
French President Emmanuel Macron hosts Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban at the Elysee Palace in Paris for a working dinner, in a bid to break the deadlock ahead of an EU summit after the Hungarian leader threatened to block further backing for Ukraine. IMAGES
French President Emmanuel Macron arrives by helicopter to open the 54th Le Bourget International Paris Air Show, the world's largest. IMAGES
Speaking from the EU summit in Porto, Portugal, French President Emmanuel Macron urges the United States to end its de facto ban on coronavirus vaccine exports. Macron says that stopping the export ban is "the key to producing vaccines quickly for all poor and middle-income countries". SOUNDBITE
French President Emmanuel Macron says Europe is the most generous in the world with vaccine exports and criticises "Anglo-Saxons" for blocking exports as he arrives at the European Social Summit in Portugal. SOUNDBITE
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