Europe is on the brink of another financial crisis, German frontrunner Merz warns
It’s “definitely coming,” he tells POLITICO ahead of the Feb. 23 election.
It’s “definitely coming,” he tells POLITICO ahead of the Feb. 23 election.
Top European leaders could not find common ground on issues including sending peacekeepers in Ukraine.
European leaders are meeting in Paris for an emergency summit on Ukraine, following last weekโs call between Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin. With NATOโs most powerful member sidelining its allies in talks with Russia, is the U.S. still a reliable par…
Ukraine doesn’t have to accept whatever peace plan Russia and the United States present, Scholz added.
Labour MPs โ and opposition lawmakers too โ are asking for a parliamentary say on any British escalation.
The Polish PM is adamant that Europe must not break ties with the U.S.
The call came before the French president welcomed a group of European leaders in Paris.
Prime minister heads to Washington to meet with US president as European capitals fret over Ukraine’s future.
Keith Kellogg will be in Ukraine for two days this week.
The Ukrainian leader said he will be in Turkey while Russia and the US speak in Riyadh.
The trip will take place in a show of solidarity as Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine hits the three-year mark, one EU official said.
Pausing hostilities, which U.S. President Trump has vowed to do, would free up Kremlin resources to threaten countries across the alliance, the report says.
Signaling a pivot, Germany’s likely next chancellor suggested he’d consider governing with the center left โ but not the AfD or the liberals.
U.S. secretary of state lands in Saudi Arabia as EU leaders prepare for crisis summit in Paris.
After nearly three years of war in Ukraine, protests by Polish farmers are opening up social and political fractures in a once-unshakeable alliance.
The French president’s anti-regulation push has thrown his environmental legacy into doubt and angered many in his own party.
As a result of the Russian threat, the Baltic state has decided to increase its military spending to 6% of its GDP by 2030.
We call on the EUโs member countries and institutions to be the voice of human dignity globally, and to mobilize, defend and support the court.
At a time of intensifying great power competition, the EU has to choose between becoming a satrap of the U.S. or breaking free to steer its own course โ and it must decide quickly.
Ahead of a crunch meeting in Paris on Monday, the U.K. leader commits to putting British troops in harm’s way to secure lasting peace.
โOne phone call does not make peace,โ the secretary of State said.
Israeli leader declares “full cooperation and coordination” with Washington as Marco Rubio starts Mideast tour.
The Brits, French, and Germans all have their own ideas about how to defend the continent with Americaโs plans in flux.ย
โI do not know what it is,โ said Ukraineโs President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The “main European countries” will discuss the continent’s security, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noรซl Barrot said.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Noรซl Barrot said the “main European countries” would meet on Monday to discuss European security.
Negotiators from Kyiv will be joining the talks that launch in the coming days.
It was not immediately clear which European leaders would be invited to the emergency meeting.
US Defense Secretary Peter Hegseth has lauded Poland as a “model NATO allyโ in his first visit to Warsaw on Friday, where he met with President Andrzej Duda and Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of National Defense Wลadysลaw Kosiniak-Kamysz.
The chancellor, who is trailing in the polls ahead of the Feb. 23 snap election, expressed confidence that Germany will have a parliamentary majority to loosen the debt brake.
“The U.S. is rightly asking for a rebalancing of that,” said Rutte. “It’s totally logical.”
Republican senator says US should continue to send weapons to Ukraine.
Lawmakersโ reactions underscore the challenge Republicans face as they try to make sense of the administrationโs efforts to end the Ukraine war.
U.S. officials told NBC that handing over half of its valuable minerals would be a way for Kyiv to reimburse the U.S. for the billions of dollars in weapons and support.
Despite talk of a peace agreement, Russia is continuing to wage war against Ukraine.
The grim prognosis comes as the conflict appears to be entering a new phase.
โWeโve now got an alliance between a Russian president who wants to destroy Europe and an American president who also wants to destroy Europe,” one diplomat said.
The Italian prime minister stood by her presidentโs comparison of Russia to Nazi Germany.
The U.S. vice president roasted the continent’s way of governing itself.
The U.S. vice president’s admonition of Europeโs policies splits American lawmakers.
“I donโt want to go [down] in history as [the] president who helped Putin to occupy my country,โ says Ukrainian leader.
Former prime minister โ who has lobbied Donald Trump to back Ukraine โ says European nations should ‘man up and step up’ by increasing defense spending.
JD Vance stunned the audience with his broadside on the way Europe is run.
European Commission president announces plan at Munich Security Conference.
Boris Pistorius said it would have been better to talk about Kyivโs NATO membership and territory โat the negotiating table.โ
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has a “stark” message for European allies.
Ukrainian leader implores the West to “stop this crazy guy.”
Senate Armed Services Chair Roger Wicker is breaking with the line from the Trump White House.
Brussels has strengthened its trade defense arsenal since a skirmish in U.S. President Donald Trumpโs first term.
Europe needs a change of mindset on the economy and defense, Macron tells the Financial Times.
“Radiation levels inside and outside remain normal and stable,” says International Atomic Energy Agency.
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EU and British politicians warn America against caving to the Kremlin’s demands on Ukraine. ย
Brussels has strengthened its trade toolkit since Donald Trumpโs first term. But it would need the broad support of EU countries to strike back hard.
Artificial intelligence has helped fraudsters replicate the voice of the Italian Defense Minister Guido Crosetto to fleece money from several prominent figures.
Moscow never would have invaded Ukraine if it still had a seat at the table, the president insisted.
The president tasked top Cabinet officials to study the matter further before deciding on specifics.
โOur main counterpart in this process is Washington,โ Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said.
There is a “mix of fear and denial,” according to one European official who spoke to POLITICO.
โEverything is on the table,โ the Defense secretary said with no mention of concessions he demanded the day before.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer promised to be a โsteadfastโ backer of Ukraine. But Britain is cash-strapped and struggling to build links.
Berlin wants more robust military spending following a bombshell move by the Trump administration to negotiate a peace deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
โWe donโt need to see him, he wonโt be chancellor long,โ a former U.S. official said of Vance’s thinking.
Based on talks with Trump, Scholz had expected Washington to continue its support for Kyiv, he told POLITICO
Bjoern Seibert visited Washington ahead of high-level contacts between the Commission president and J.D. Vance.
Germany’s defence minister, Boris Pistorius, said he regretted that the US administration had made ‘concessions’ to Russia before peace talks with Ukraine had even started, as he attended a Nato meeting in Brussels on Thursday.Donald Trump said on Wedn…
But alliance chief Mark Rutte was keen to downplay fears that Europe and Kyiv are being sidelined.
There is broad agreement to boost defense spending โ but the U.S. president’s call for 5 percent of GDP is too much for most European countries.
“Letโs not mince words about what this represents: a surrender of Ukraineโs interests and our own, even before negotiations begin,โ says U.S. Senator Adam Schiff.
The meeting will happen in the “not too distant future,โ Trump said.
The vice president faces a perennially difficult task as he attempts to take the MAGA mantle.
The countriesโ leaders clarified their โshared positionโ that Palestinians should not be displaced from Gaza just a day after the king of Jordan met with Trump.
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s warning resembles Moscow’s vision, as Russian President Vladimir Putin.
U.S. president announces that talks with Russia’s leader on ending the war will start โimmediately,โ after his defense chief warns that Ukraineโs peace goals wonโt be met.
U.S. and Russian leaders spoke on the phone Wednesday about ending the war โ and agreed to start negotiations โimmediately.โ
The president says he and the Russian leader spoke and are eager to work together.
The Defense secretaryโs comments at NATO headquarters signal the Trump administration will support stopping Russian efforts in Ukraine โ with caveats.
The European Commission wants a more flexible financial framework to meet the challenges, including green technologies, border security and defense, facing the 27 member states.
Friedrich Merz has pledged to take a leading role in uniting the continent in its response to U.S. President Donald Trump.
The bloc has to get tougher in the age of Donald Trump, argues Friedrich Merz.
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If U.S. president can convince Moscow to negotiate an end to hostilities with Kyiv, Ukraine leader is ready to talk business on occupied territories.
An updated threat assessment warns of the consequences of a divided NATO and an absent U.S.
Moscow said any move to grab its oil exporting vessels would be seen as an attack against the country, after POLITICO revealed the new EU plans.
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“We have to get something. We canโt continue to pay this money,โ U.S. president says.
Repayment of the EU’s โฌ300 billion joint borrowing hangs like a cloud over the European Commission’s budget brainstorm.
Madrid wants governments to be jointly liable for borrowing huge amounts of money to boost the bloc’s coffers.
A “serious” American delegation will visit Ukraine, the Ukrainian president said.
Turkey wants to buy Eurofighters equipped with air-to-air Meteor missiles.
Academics can be as influential as tech bros in swaying policymakers to both invest in and set guardrails for the powerful technology.
The move would allow governments with overstretched budgets more flexibility under the bloc’s debt and deficit rules.
European countries are pushing for new powers to squeeze Moscowโs shadow fleet after a spate of incidents in the Baltic Sea.
With a cease-fire holding in Gaza, Israel shifts its war to the West Bank.
The vice president will mingle with world leaders in Munich and Paris at a time when the White House has made clear itโs not afraid to shred old alliances.
Concerns are growing about talks on the second phase of the cease-fire deal.
Mysterious drones have repeatedly infiltrated a German base where Ukrainian troops train on Patriot systems, sparking an espionage probe and exposing gaps in Berlinโs air defense.
Navi Pillay, head of UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, also said she would support a charge of apartheid against Israel at the ICC.
Russian leader “wants to see people stop dying,” Trump tells the newspaper in an interview.
Kyiv wants to secure the U.S. administration on its side before any peace talks with Russia.