Russia withdraws ambassador from London and names no replacement
Moscow has left its British embassy in the hands of a chargé d'affaires as the row over UK drone supplies to Ukraine deepens.
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Morocco plays all sides while Europe kills itself
Morocco skillfully navigates its diverse alliances, receiving EU funding while dominating the European agricultural market and exploiting strong trade ties with…
State Department revokes more than 175,000 visas under Trump
Washington says a US visa is a privilege and not a right, with the running total up by 75,000 since January.
Washington stalls approval of Macron’s ambassador pick after UN rights clash
Aurélien Lechevallier was due to take up the post in September but has yet to receive American consent.
EU summons Burkina Faso ambassador over ‘unjustified’ expulsion of diplomats
Brussels has said retaliatory measures would follow, weeks after Ouagadougou broke off relations with Paris.
Burkina Faso expels two EU diplomats and gives them three days to leave
Ouagadougou has offered no explanation for the move, which comes weeks after it broke with Paris.
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US ambassador urges EU to cut regulation, says current model is ‘damaging European consumers’
Andrew Puzder defended the recently negotiated US-EU trade agreement while warning that Europe's biggest economic challenges are largely self-inflicted.
Burkina Faso severs diplomatic relations with France
France's foreign ministry called the move a "hostile and unfounded decision" and confirmed that reciprocal measures were under review.
US diplomatic decline and the lost European mind
Donald Trump and his administration have a problem: As I have outlined elsewhere, I think that the United States is pursuing a strategic foreign policy – often…
US foreign policy? You have to wonder if America is even trying
Ah, the United States and foreign policy—a tale as old as time, or at least as old as Woodrow Wilson’s Fourteen Points.
Despite its fading grandeur, Britain’s Foreign Office has forgotten its former self-confidence. Foreign Secretary David Cameron needs to rediscover it fast to avoid humiliation
Three British diplomatic heavy-weights, recently retired, have just released a report calling on the Foreign Office to be “re-branded”.
Germany hits NATO spending target for first time since Cold War’s end
Germany has met a NATO alliance target to spend 2 per cent of its gross domestic product on defence for the first time since the early 1990s, a defence ministry…
Western leaders have lost the art of diplomacy – Donald Trump is one of the few who gets it
The key rule of diplomacy is that it is most needed when dealing with one’s rivals, not one’s friends.
The problem of peace: Détente vs appeasement
The recent gathering of diplomats hosted by Saudi Arabia in Jeddah was a notable event – at least in size and participation, if not outcomes.