Trump not ‘aligned with anybody’: how Europe can sell itself to America
In the onslaught of speeches, statements, and executive actions undertaken by the Trump administration, it is understandable that some in Europe may have missed…
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US stuns the UN: Trump will not vote for impossible return of Ukrainian territory
Childbirth can often be painful, a breach-delivery especially, and what the world is witnessing now is the agonising birth of an entirely reconfigured US foreign…
Trump goes into Kremlin’s rat-infested sewer and makes a deal
Realpolitik is the virtue-free art of the politically possible.
Most Poles want country to host nuclear weapons, new survey shows
More than half of Poles want nuclear weapons stationed in the country, a new poll has shown.
US VP Vance slams Romania election annulment as risk to Western values
US Vice President JD Vance has criticised Romania's decision to cancel its presidential election late last year.
Europe: checkmate
This year will see the 80th anniversary of VE Day, i.e. Victory in Europe over Nazi Germany in May 1945.
Ukraine war : US acts, EU reacts with another round of statements
The European political elite have been left in disarray as the US took the lead in shaping a resolution to the war in Ukraine without them, leaving them scrambling…
Belgian former NATO chief accuses US of ‘high treason’
Willy Claes, a Belgian politician who served as the eighth Secretary General of NATO, has expressed outrage about what he called the end of US solidarity with Europe.
‘Rules based international order’ is dead, 20th century never coming back
For a moment last week, it appeared that European Union officials finally had realised that the 20th century was never coming back.
Doubts surface over continued US military presence in Poland
Pete Hegseth, the US Defence Secretary, has praised Poland’s efforts in ramping up military spending to 5 per cent of its GDP.
Europe disdained US Republicans for years, now euro-elites are in a frenzy
Statements and speeches last week from President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth have been treated as the end of the…
EU and Canada defence spend up by 20% in 2024, says NATO chief Rutte
Defence spending by NATO's European members and Canada was 20 per cent higher in 2024 than the previous year, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said, ahead of a…
Norway’s ‘Trump whisperer’ Stoltenberg in as new finance chief, urges US engagement
Former NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg, who has became Norway's new finance minister, said engaging with the administration of US President Donald Trump on trade was…
Tusk tries to seduce Trump with US weapons purchase proposal
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has urged the European Union to stay “united” and respond in a “clear and firm” way to US President Donald Trump’s warning…
‘Prepare for war,’ NATO Secretary General Rutte tells members
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has told the military alliance's member states to "prepare for war" and significantly increase defence spending.
US does not want to defend Europe any more, but Europeans say ‘Ho-hum’
If you have paid attention to European defence issues and NATO conversations these past few weeks, you’d have thought that something got into the water in the…
Trump could occupy Greenland ‘tomorrow, by decree’, Danish politician claims
The US could take control of Greenland "tomorrow" by simple decree if it wanted, a Danish politician said on Sunday.
‘We are a reliable partner’ says Spain after Trump’s veiled criticism
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has responded to US President Donald Trump’s repeated criticisms of Europe’s defence spending.
Trump to stop all aid to Ukraine? Claptrap
The fantasyland of contemporary Western European notions of the Western Alliance was well-illustrated this week by an article published by the former foreign minister…
Dominion: Trump’s new grand strategy?
With Donald Trump only days away from being sworn into what will likely be the most “imperial” of US presidencies since Franklin D.
Trump says ‘plans underway for peace-deal meeting with Putin’
US President-elect Donald Trump has announced plans were underway for a possible peace meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, although no specific timeline…
EC and European Council chiefs target Trump and Musk
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and European Council President António Costa have sent a joint statement to the US President-elect Donald Trump…
In the Middle East this time, it is all different: Trump is back
Just twenty years ago this week, the world’s greatest scholar of Islam, Sir Martin Gilbert, wrote of George W Bush and Tony Blair that they “may well, with the…
Trump defeats the self-loathing agenda of ‘the great liberal death wish’
Even in Europe, which generally likes weak American administrations devoted to endless collegiality with its balky and condescending European allies, there are signs…
French hard-left chief brands Trump a ‘threat’, accuses US of ‘economic imperialism’ via NATO
French leader of the hard-left La France Insoumise (LFI) party Jean-Luc Mélenchon has criticised US President-elect Donald Trump, describing him as "a threat" and…
Trump can make world energy prices tumble, hitting Putin hard
A negotiated peace between Russia and Ukraine shortly after Donald Trump takes office in January of 2025 seems more and more likely.