Europeโs leaders find no quick response to Trumpโs bombshell on Ukraine
Top European leaders could not find common ground on issues including sending peacekeepers in Ukraine.
Top European leaders could not find common ground on issues including sending peacekeepers in Ukraine.
European leaders sought to find a unified response at an emergency summit in Paris Monday following a shock policy shift on the war in Ukraine by US President Donald Trump. The talks were held as Washington and Moscow’s top diplomats were due Tuesday …
Ukraine doesn’t have to accept whatever peace plan Russia and the United States present, Scholz added.
Leaders arrive at Paris summit for urgent talks on Ukraine after week that showed how far values have divergedEurope live โ latest updatesThey came smiling, but the task was immense. After dozens of summits at which a hesitant and discordant EU had fai…
EU and Ukraine have been excluded from high-stakes negotiations between top Russian and US officialsEurope live โ latest updatesVolodymyr Zelenskyy reiterated that Ukraine would not recognise any peace agreements made without its participation, as top …
The Polish PM is adamant that Europe must not break ties with the U.S.
The US is treating the EU like a “junior partner” in attempting to negotiate an end to the war in Ukraine, FRANCE 24โs Armen Georgian said in an analysis. Citing President Trump’s phone call with Vladimir Putin and potential talks with Ukraine’s Zelen…
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.
Ursula Von der Leyen will attend an emergency meeting in Paris about the war in Ukraine to react to Washington’s shock policy shift.
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.
Olga Chernykhโs portrait of life in war-torn Ukraine, based on home videos, examines how bonds and memories persist through trauma, loss and distanceFormally inventive and emotionally resonant, Olga Chernykhโs documentary feature debut highlights the p…
European leaders were due to meet in Paris on Monday to address Washington’s shock policy shift on the war in Ukraine, as Britain declared itself ready to dispatch peacekeeping troops to Ukraine. US President Donald Trump sidelined Kyiv and its Europe…
U.S. secretary of state lands in Saudi Arabia as EU leaders prepare for crisis summit in Paris.
In this episode, host Giada Santana and Chief Diplomatic Correspondent Alexandra Brzozowski go through highlights and lowlights from the Munich Security Conference.
With Germany embroiled in political and economic difficulties, nuclear advocates see an opportunity to score points in Brussels.
โ Erstmals Viererrunde vor der Wahl: Wie das Quadrell lief. โ Gipfel nach der Sicherheitskonferenz: Zu welchen Lรถsungen die EU-Regierungschefs heute in Paris kommen kรถnnten, damit die USA und Russland nicht ohne sie รผber die Ukraine verhandeln. โ Im 200-Sekunden-Interview: Franziska Brantner. Die Co-Chefin der Grรผnen zu den europรคischen Perspektiven fรผr die Ukraine, deutschen Friedenstruppen [โฆ]
After nearly three years of war in Ukraine, protests by Polish farmers are opening up social and political fractures in a once-unshakeable alliance.
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.
Ukraine and Europe worry about being sidelined as Trump remains persistent to go ahead with direct talks with Russia to discuss an end to the war in Ukraine.
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.
The Ukrainian president says he wonโt accept a peace agreement if his country is iced out of talks.
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.
As Donald Trump and his officials rip up three years of US rhetoric on supporting Kyiv, Volodymyr Zelenskyy is walking an unenviable diplomatic tightropeVolodymyr Zelenskyy has had some tough weeks in the past three years, but this past one may be up t…
Negotiators from Kyiv will be joining the talks that launch in the coming days.
“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.
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.
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 Hungarian leader repeated Kremlin talking points in an interview with Tucker Carlson.
The U.S. vice president roasted the continent’s way of governing itself.
“I donโt want to go [down] in history as [the] president who helped Putin to occupy my country,โ says Ukrainian leader.
Riga wants to reduce the risks of human rights violations of Latvian citizens in those countries, and prevent their recruitment as spies.
Attack during night before Munich Security Conference started fire but did not cause radiation leak, says KyivEurope live โ latest updates
A Russian drone carrying a high-explosive warhead struck the protective containment shell of the Chornobyl nucle…
Boris Pistorius said it would have been better to talk about Kyivโs NATO membership and territory โat the negotiating table.โ
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.
“That’s what we’ve been waiting for,” Hungarian prime minister says.
“Radiation levels inside and outside remain normal and stable,” says International Atomic Energy Agency.
Die aktuellen Umfragen sprechen eine klare Sprache: Es kรถnnte eng werden fรผr Olaf Scholz. Wie blickt er selbst auf seine Zukunft als Kanzler? Was passiert, wenn Friedrich Merz und die Union stรคrkste Kraft werden? In diesem Gesprรคch gibt Scholz Einblicke in seine Strategie, spricht รผber die zerbrochene Koalition, die wirtschaftlichen Herausforderungen und die zunehmende politische [โฆ]
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and US Vice President JD Vance are set to meet in Munich on Friday, days after US President Donald Trump announced he would hold bilateral talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss ending the war in …
EU and British politicians warn America against caving to the Kremlin’s demands on Ukraine. ย
Moscow never would have invaded Ukraine if it still had a seat at the table, the president insisted.
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.
Based on talks with Trump, Scholz had expected Washington to continue its support for Kyiv, he told POLITICO
But alliance chief Mark Rutte was keen to downplay fears that Europe and Kyiv are being sidelined.
Any peace negotiations to end the war in Ukraine must involve Kyiv, saidย NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Thursday, as European defence ministers meeting in Brussels responded to US President Donald Trump’s announcement that he and Russian Preside…
โ รuรerung gegenรผber Joe Chialo: Ein unbeobachteter Moment holt den Kanzler wenige Tage vor dem Wahlsonntag ein und bringt ihn in eine Situation, wie sie zuletzt Peer Steinbrรผck hatte. โ Im 200-Sekunden-Interview: FDP-Chef Christian Lindner erklรคrt, weshalb er nun eine Deutschland-Koalition aus CDU, SPD und FDP favorisiert. โ Vor der Mรผnchner Sicherheitskonferenz: Trump kรผndigt Verhandlungen [โฆ]
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.
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.
The BBC’s Defence correspondent breaks down a drastic shift in Washington’s position on the war in Ukraine.
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.
If Donald Trump withdraws US support for Ukraine, Europe alone will be unable to fill the gap, Volodymyr Zelenskyy has suggested. ‘There are voices which say that Europe could offer security guarantees without the Americans, and I always say no,’ said …
The 10,000 North Koreans sent to this Russian region to fight alongside the Russians withdrew from the area in mid-January after suffering heavy losses.
Friedrich Merz has pledged to take a leading role in uniting the continent in its response to U.S. President Donald Trump.
The two ‘strongmen’ who claim to be putting an end to the war in Ukraine have begun to work together. But in their view, strength has replaced law, writes Le Monde columnist Sylvie Kauffmann.
โ Vorbereitungen fรผr den Tag nach dem Wahlsonntag: Wie sich die Parteien auf den 24.02. vorbereiten, wer mit wem zuerst spricht, wo politische Karrieren befรถrdert und womรถglich beendet werden. Einblicke von Rasmus Buchsteiner dazu. โ Im 200-Sekunden-Interview: Bundesinnenministerin Nancy Faeser รผber Migrations-Streit, Terror-Schutz und den Zwist zwischen Union und SPD รผber Zurรผckweisungen an der Grenze. [โฆ]
Ahead of the Munich Security Conference, we need to be preparing for an extraordinarily complex process that will take many months.
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.
“We have to get something. We canโt continue to pay this money,โ U.S. president says.
How should one handle the 47th U.S. president? Kiss the ring, resist, offer deals and wait for exhaustion to set in.
A “serious” American delegation will visit Ukraine, the Ukrainian president said.
As a series of drones hit Ukrainian cities, a new report by the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) suggests Russia is “leveraging” technological innovation and experience gained in the war in Ukraine “directly against NATO states.”
The president has made big statements. But securing real peace will involve a mix of global diplomacy, threats and sweetenersโข Christopher S Chivvis is a senior fellow and director of the Carnegie Endowmentโs American statecraft programmeAmid the maels…
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.
Russian leader “wants to see people stop dying,” Trump tells the newspaper in an interview.
The Kremlin on Sunday declined to confirm or deny a US media report of a phone call between US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin about ending the war in Ukraine.ย
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โIf thereโs anybody who understands leverage, itโs President Donald J. Trump,” Keith Kellogg tells the New York Post.
Kyiv insists that the invasion made sense, but some experts feel the cost has been very high.
Britain will take over Wednesdayโs meeting of Kyivโs allies from the U.S.
The warplanes will help defend Ukraine against Russian attacks.
A long-planned exit from the BRELL power grid has the Baltic countries preparing for Russian retaliation.
String of attacks against Ukraineโs mobilisation effort; Ukraine announces robot ground units. What we know on day 1,079A person died setting off an explosion at an army recruitment centre in western Ukraine on Wednesday, officials said, amid a string …
“There are indeed contacts between individual departments,” says spokesperson for Vladimir Putin.
Defense Minister Wลadysลaw Kosiniak-Kamysz warns that Europe must spend more “to retain the presence of the Americans in Europe.”
If Ukraine isn’t granted NATO membership it will need another way to defend itself from Russia in future, said the Ukrainian president.
The move would offer national capitals more room to increase defense spending.
The former German chancellor is suffering from severe exhaustion, lack of energy, concentration and memory problems, his doctor says.
The Kremlin delivers a warning to U.S. president over military aid proposal.
Kyiv isn’t totally against the U.S. president’s idea โ but the German chancellor isn’t impressed.
Ukraine wants Donald Trump’s support, but has suffered thousands of casualties and desertions as it holds the line against Russia.
Bratislava and Kyiv have been at loggerheads since the Slovak leadership cut off weapons flows to Ukraine and embraced Moscow talking points.
“Many Ukrainian soldiers who surrendered or were in physical custody of the Russian armed forces were shot dead on the spot,” a monitoring mission says.