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Italy’s Meloni strains to hold her coalition together over Ukraine and EU...
Europe’s massive rearmament plans — and the EU’s role in Ukraine — are turning into a splitting political headache for Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni as she grapples to hold her right-wing...
View ArticleBeautiful beef: Le Pen, Varoufakis and the horseshoe theory of politics
Listen on Spotify Apple Music Amazon Music What do Marine Le Pen, Yanis Varoufakis and Donald Trump have in common? More than you’d think. In this episode of EU Confidential, host Sarah Wheaton breaks...
View ArticleRussia open to security guarantees for Ukraine ‘in some form,’ Putin’s envoy...
Russian negotiator Kirill Dmitriev said Thursday that some type of security guarantees for Ukraine “may be acceptable” following high-level talks at the White House in an attempt to revive stalled...
View ArticleUkraine still holds land in Russia and is actually expanding, top US general...
Ukraine’s armed forces control a sizable chunk of the Kursk region in Russia despite the Kremlin’s push to squeeze them out, according to a top American general. The Ukrainians have now also entered...
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Can Britain live without American intelligence?
LONDON — The U.K.’s special relationship with the United States has been stretched on several fronts by President Donald Trump’s new administration, but many in the national security community...
View ArticleUkraine captures 2 Chinese soldiers fighting for Putin, Zelenskyy says
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Tuesday that Kyiv’s forces have captured two Chinese nationals who were fighting alongside Russian troops. “We have information that there are much more...
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Putin wants Western Balkans as his next ‘playground,’ UK warns
BELGRADE — Alarm bells are ringing in Belgrade, Kosovo and Sarajevo. While Europe’s attention has been focused on Ukraine, tensions in the Western Balkans have been simmering, and leaders in the...
View ArticleMore than 150 Chinese citizens fighting for Russia, Zelenskyy says
KYIV — As Ukraine continues to interrogate two Chinese citizens that its forces captured in the Donetsk region earlier this week, Kyiv said it has identified even more Chinese men fighting for Russia....
View ArticleUkraine allies hold talks to secure a non-existent peace
BRUSSELS — Ukraine’s allies who form the so-called coalition of the willing held talks Thursday on how to create a security mission to police any peace agreement with Russia, but have been stymied so...
View ArticleAllies pledge €21B in weapons for Ukraine while denouncing Russian attacks
Peace in Ukraine is “out of reach in the immediate future,” German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius warned Friday as allies pledged a record €21 billion in new military aid to Kyiv. Pistorius said...
View ArticleNATO chief is worried about Russian space nukes
NATO is concerned that Russia is seeking to deploy nuclear weapons in space, a development that could threaten the thousands of satellites orbiting the Earth that are crucial to defense as well as...
View ArticleRussian missile attack kills more than 30 in Sumy in northern Ukraine
More than 30 people were killed and at least 80 others wounded by in a Russian missile strike on the Ukrainian city of Sumy on Sunday, officials said, in one of the deadliest attacks on Ukraine this...
View ArticleZelenskyy invites Trump to Ukraine: Come see ‘what Putin did’
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy invited Donald Trump to visit his war-ravaged country and witness the destruction wrought by Russia, after Sunday’s ballistic missile attack that killed at...
View ArticleKyiv asks EU officials for May 9 visit to counter Putin’s victory parade
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s government invited top European officials on May 9 to Kyiv as a show of diplomatic force against Russian President Vladimir Putin’s annual military parade in...
View ArticleDon’t go to Russia’s WWII victory day celebrations, EU warns European leaders
The European Union’s top diplomat Kaja Kallas warned European leaders on Monday against participating in Moscow’s military celebrations on May 9, inviting them to show solidarity with Ukraine instead....
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Britain braces for a Trump hand grenade at London energy summit
LONDON — Donald Trump won’t be in London for the U.K.’s big energy security summit this month — but he’ll cast a long shadow over the proceedings. When U.K. Energy Secretary Ed Miliband hosts energy...
View ArticleRubio, Witkoff heading to France for talks on Ukraine, Iran and trade
PARIS — U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump’s special envoy tasked with ending the conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza, are expected to travel to Paris later this...
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Making excuses for Putin
Jamie Dettmer is opinion editor at POLITICO Europe. Hours after 35 civilians were killed and more than a hundred wounded in a Russian ballistic missile strike on the Ukrainian city of Sumy, United...
View ArticleUkrainians roll eyes at Witkoff, reject border changes
KYIV — Ukraine’s determination to defend its territorial integrity will never flag, Foreign Ministry spokesman Heorhii Tykhyi told a press briefing in Kyiv on Wednesday, brushing aside a claim by U.S....
View ArticleVladimir Putin lauds Elon Musk as rare pioneer
Tech billionaire and Donald Trump administration adviser Elon Musk has won the admiration of another president: Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Speaking to students at Bauman Moscow State Technical...
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