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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PARIS ― A pooling of France’s nuclear warheads to help protect Europe won’t happen ― not if Marine Le Pen can help it. The far-right leader on Saturday vigorously opposed plans to build a stronger, more integrated European defense, including by sharing France’s nuclear umbrella, as proposals to pool and ramp up the continent’s firepower […]
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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 […]
Read MoreBRUSSELS — The EU is unleashing efforts to boost defense spending, including a new so-called instrument aimed at key weapons programs, loosening fiscal rules to allow countries to spend more and prodding banks to boost lending, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said on Tuesday. “We should enable more targeted and efficient defense spending […]
Read MoreUkraine and the United States have agreed on the terms of a minerals deal and could sign it this week, according to several media reports. U.S. President Donald Trump on Tuesday hinted Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelenskyy could travel to Washington to sign the deal this week, telling reporters: “I hear that he’s coming on Friday. Certainly, […]
Read MorePresident Donald Trump’s pick for deputy Defense secretary declined to say Russia invaded Ukraine when pressed Tuesday by senators and defended massive Pentagon firings — a sign he’s unlikely to challenge the dramatic changes underway at the department. Stephen Feinberg, a Trump donor and billionaire investor, told lawmakers during his confirmation hearing that he didn’t want to […]
Read MorePolish President Andrzej Duda said Tuesday that if Germany doesn’t want American troops on its soil, Poland would be happy to take them. Duda was responding to remarks by Germany’s election winner Friedrich Merz, who said that U.S. President Donald Trump doesn’t care about Europe and that the continent urgently needs to strengthen its own […]
Read MoreBRUXELLES — Le président américain Donald Trump agit comme s’il avait toutes les cartes en main dans les négociations pour mettre fin à la guerre en Ukraine. Mais Bruxelles a une arme secrète de 200 milliards d’euros dans sa manche. Après avoir été exclus des discussions entre les Etats-Unis et la Russie le 18 février […]
Read MoreBERLIN ― Olaf Scholz and his Social Democratic Party (SPD) are braced for a crushing defeat in Sunday’s German election. The vote looks set to return a center-right chancellor and show record postwar support for the far right. This page will be updated throughout the night as the results come in. We are also following […]
Read MoreBRUSSELS — The European Commission will propose deep cuts to the European Union’s environmental reporting rule book in its bid to slash red tape and boost the bloc’s struggling economy, according to a section of a draft of the upcoming omnibus legislation obtained by POLITICO. In one of the first major pieces of legislation from […]
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