Meta fined $263M over 2018 security breach that affected ~3M EU Facebook users / Around 5.4 mln Ukrainians in EU countries now -- MP / German Finance Agency Backs EU Bid to Issue Sovereign Debt / EU investigates TikTok over Romanian presidential election safeguards / EU Gas Firms Push For Ukraine Transit Deal After This Year / Ex-Portuguese Justice Minister Anjinho elected to be EU ombudsman / Erdogan receives von der Leyen as EU contacts Turkiye over Syria / EU won't talk to Damascus unless Russian bases scrapped -- Kallas / EU's blacklist for Russia expands to 2,386 entries / EU seeks assurances about a peaceful future from Syria's new leaders