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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

53% : Ahead of the summit, officials suggested that a solution might be found by targeting oil transported by ships and holding fire on the pipeline oil so valuable to Hungary. ___ BERLIN -- Germany's governing parties and the main opposition party have reached a deal to move ahead with a big increase in defense spending that Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced three months ago.
53% : Scholz told German lawmakers three days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine started that the country would commit 100 billion euros ($107 billion) to a special fund for its military and raise its defense spending above 2% of GDP -- a measure on which it had long lagged.
47% : The city has served as the administrative center for the Luhansk region, which makes up Donbas together with the neighboring Donetsk region. ___ BRUSSELS -- European Union leaders will gather Monday in a new show of solidarity with Ukraine but divisions over whether to target Russian oil in a new series of sanctions are exposing the limits of how far the bloc can go to help the war-torn country.
39% : But the United Nations is warning that the price hikes are coming as many parts of Africa are facing drought and hunger.

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