Of all the priorities Donald Trump has set since returning to power, his fixation on Greenland has ranked among the most mystifying. The president’s insistence that the U.S. should “own and control” the world’s largest island has unsettled its inhabitants and inspired his allies to imagine it as America’s 51st state. It has also raised a […]
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As European leaders prepare for a high-stakes summit in London on Sunday, populist Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and his Slovak counterpart Robert Fico are openly challenging the EU’s united front on Ukraine, pushing positions that echo the Kremlin’s stance. In a letter to European Council President António Costa dated Saturday, Orbán called for the […]
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LONDON — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer gave a highly public show of support for Volodymyr Zelenskyy Saturday night, a day after the Ukrainian president was berated in the Oval Office by Donald Trump. Starmer greeted Zelenskyy — in town for a meeting of European leaders on Sunday — on the steps of No. 10 […]
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BRUSSELS — German conservatives and the Hungarian far right may have little in common, but they do agree on one thing: Non-governmental organizations rank high on their list of enemies. In a significant political maneuver, incoming German Chancellor Friedrich Merz’s center-right Christian Democratic alliance (CDU) last week submitted an inquiry targeting NGOs, which involved 551 […]
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BERLIN — Europe’s most powerful economy is poised to take a major step to bolster its defense capabilities, with Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz announcing a plan to partly exempt defense spending from the country’s constitutional fiscal restraints. “In view of the threats to our freedom and peace on our continent,” Merz said Tuesday evening in […]
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It’s dawning on the world — and some Republicans on Capitol Hill — that sometimes President Donald Trump should be taken literally after all. Trump levied sweeping tariffs on key trading partners Mexico, Canada and China early Tuesday morning, sparking retaliation from Beijing and Ottawa, sending the stock market into a tailspin, and alarming government […]
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WARSAW — Poland will look at gaining access to nuclear weapons and also ensure that every man undergoes military training as part of an effort to build a 500,000-strong army to face off the threat from Russia, Prime Minister Donald Tusk told the parliament on Friday. Poland’s dramatic military expansion comes as fears grow across […]
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President Donald Trump said he is “strongly considering” issuing large-scale sanctions and tariffs on Russia to get a cease-fire and settlement deal on the table to end the war in Ukraine. In a Friday post on Truth Social, Trump put pressure on the country that so far has faced little public pushback from his administration. […]
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Trump veut détruire l’UE et la reconstruire à son image Donald Trump ne traitera pas avec l’UE. L’UE ne peut pas traiter avec Trump. Par NICHOLAS VINOCURet CAMILLE GIJSà Bruxelles Illustration de Nicolás Ortega pour POLITICO Donald Trump a tenté, en vain, de trouver une faille dans l’armure de l’UE avec la guerre commerciale qu’il […]
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Italy must pay compensation to migrants who were not allowed to disembark from the Diciotti ship in August 2018, the country’s highest court ruled on Friday. The 177 migrants who were held aboard the ship for 10 days were deprived of their personal freedom, Italy’s Court of Cassation ruled on Friday, and are therefore entitled […]
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