Terry Schultz

He says it's natural to have different values, but that the U.S.

and EU are still allies.

And so Washington should not be praising what the strategy calls patriotic European parties, interpreted as the far right.

Allies do not threaten to interfere in the lives and the domestic political choices of their allies, Costa said.

Costa also took aim at U.S.

criticism of Europe's digital regulation, saying if power is concentrated in what he called tech oligarchs, that is a limit on freedom of information.

For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz in Brussels.

President Zelensky will hold a previously unannounced meeting with the top leaders of both the European Union and NATO at the home of NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte.

EU Commission Chief Ursula von der Leyen will be there.

One of her main priorities at the moment is convincing the Belgian Prime Minister to allow the use of more than $100 billion worth of Russian money immobilized in a Belgium-based financial institution

as collateral for a loan to Ukraine.

The plan envisions paying back the funds to Moscow after it compensates Kiev for the damage it's caused.

For NPR News, I'm Terry Schultz in Brussels.

He now says it's under review.

Are you ordering the secretary to release that full video?

President Zelensky will hold a previously unannounced meeting with the top leaders of both the European Union and NATO at the home of NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte.

EU Commission Chief Ursula von der Leyen will be there.

One of her main priorities at the moment is convincing the Belgian prime minister to allow the use of more than $100 billion worth of Russian money, immobilized in a Belgium-based financial institution,

as collateral for a loan to Ukraine.

The plan envisions paying back the funds to Moscow after it compensates Kiev for the damage it's caused.