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The plan devised by High Representative Kaja Kallas to raise up to €40 billion in fresh military support for Ukraine failed to gain the necessary political traction during a summit of European Union leaders on Thursday, throwing its viability into serious doubt. The reaction was so lukewarm that some diplomats declared the project “dead”. The…
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Vladimir Putin is “presenting demands that are ultimate goals,” Kaja Kallas said on Monday in reaction to the Russian leader’s pre-conditions to accept the American proposal for a 30-day ceasefire in Ukraine. Russia does not want peace in Ukraine and cannot be trusted to advance such a goal, High Representative Kaja Kallas warned on the…
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President Costa! President von der Leyen! Dear colleagues, glad to see you all. I’ve already spoken to many of you these days and weeks, and I am grateful for your support. Ukrainians really appreciate that in a time of such great emotions in global politics, European integrity is preserved, and Europe is really trying to…
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with European leaders in Brussels, Belgium, on Thursday as his nation seeks to weather continued attacks from Russia and growing political pressure from President Donald Trump’s administration in the U.S. The Ukrainian president’s latest visit to Brussels comes at a difficult moment for his nation, the White House having announced an open-ended pause on…
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US National Security Adviser Mike Waltz announced the two key European leaders will have a seat at the negotiating table after EU leaders raised the alarm over Donald Trump’s handling of the war in Ukraine. Is French President Emmanuel Macron’s gamble starting to pay off? After organising two emergency meetings this week in Paris with…
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Russia’s ambassador to the UN is addressing the security council in New York now, telling the meeting the EU and UK are “absolutely unfaithful to their word”. “They cannot be a party to any future agreement on the resolution to the Ukrainian crisis whatsoever,” Vasily Nebenzya adds. “They are blinded by primitive Russophobia, their maniacal…
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By Adam Parsons, Sky News Europe correspondent There is no disguising this now. Plenty of Europe’s most prominent politicians are deeply rattled by what they’ve heard from those at the top of the Trump White House and worried about the consequences. Emmanuel Macron, inevitably, has come to the fore, once again positioning himself as the continent’s…
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Vladimir Putin yesterday hosted Slovakia’s prime minister, Robert Fico, in a rare visit to the Kremlin by an EU leader since Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. Fico arrived in Russia on a “working visit” and met with Putin one-on-one yesterday evening, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told Russia’s RIA news agency. Peskov said the…
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Key Takeaways Donald Trump in his first international trip as president-elect, joined world leaders and dignitaries in Paris for a Saturday celebration of the renovation of Notre Dame Cathedral after a devastating fire in 2019. Trump wrote when he accepted the invitation earlier this week that French President Emmanuel Macron had done “a wonderful job ensuring that Notre Dame…
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Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has accused European leaders of seeking to escalate the war in Ukraine after Donald Trump’s re-election. In a post to Telegram, Medvedev claimed their goal was to “drive the conflict with Russia into an irreversible phase”. He also warned Western politicians against sending long-range missiles to Ukraine to fire at…
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Two of the European Union’s most powerful individuals said Thursday that the 27-nation bloc will continue to discuss human rights and the rule of law with China after Beijing imposed a new security law on Hong Kong. But Ursula von der Leyen, who heads the EU’s executive commission, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel stopped short…
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