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Good morning, it's Thursday, March 19, and this is the Brussels Playbook podcast.

The And this is the Brussels Playbook podcast. The vibe in town today is apprehensive, with all eyes on a summit of EU leaders.

And also on the pod, the fate of the EU-US trade deal is hanging in the balance.

Plus, Belgium has too many frozen fries.

What a problem to have. I'm Zoro Shafdanovich and with me today is one of our policy editor, Sarah Wheaton. Hey Sarah, how do you like a potato? I mean, this is a big dispute in my household, mayonnaise or ketchup. And? Well, as an American, I'm red all the way. It runs deep in your veins. I like a little bit of both. I like to

dip in one, dip in the other, Aussie style. We like to be in between. Well, Sarah, today, it's

Yuko Day, one of my favorite days when it comes up. That's the European Council Summit,

which is just a fancy way of saying all of the EU's 27 leaders plus the European Commission President, plus the European Council Summit, which is just a fancy way of saying all of the EU's 27 leaders, plus the European Commission President, plus the European Council President, plus the European Parliament President, get together in Brussels to have a chat. Plus a bunch of journalists very bored. Waiting on the sidelines trying to figure out what they're saying in the closed room. And also, unfortunately, for Roberta Matsola, the Parliament President, she has to leave at a certain point, and then it's just the others. And she's probably wondering what they're saying, too. Well, she should read Politico's live blog. Oh, yes, the live blog. Actually, everyone should read the Politico Live Block, because that's kicking off right about now. Listen, it's going to be a big one today, Sarah, because the really big topic is about whether

Viktor Orban, the Hungarian Prime Minister, allows Ukraine to get this 90 billion euro loan that

it desperately needs to stay afloat.

This is something we've been talking about for several months.

That's the loan that Viktor Orban and every other EU leader agreed to back in December, and now he's holding

things up. Yeah, and as you discussed with Ian yesterday, it's completely unprecedented for a leader

to backtrack on a deal that they made, but that's where we're at now. And leaders are going to

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