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The European Union will decide by October 31 whether to ease restrictions on Russia’s access to a gas pipeline link to Germany, two people close to the issue said on October 25.

Together with separate talks to settle an antitrust case against Russian state gas exporter Gazprom, the steps would go a long way to smoothing ties between the EU and Russia, which supplies around one-third of the bloc’s gas.

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