80 years after victory over the Nazis, Europe’s Russophobia stares into a new abyss
Eighty ago, the Nazi beast was slain - May 8th for the West, May 9th for Russia. Berlin lay in ruins, Europe a graveyard of dreams, and the world exhaled.
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Polish President backs Trump and tells Ukraine to ‘compromise’ for peace deal
Poland’s President Andrzej Duda has said Ukraine would have to “make compromises” to achieve a durable peace deal with Russia.
Calm down: the ‘geopolitical crisis’ narrative is overblown
It has become cliché to say that the advent of the second Trump administration has thrown the world into chaos.
US military to step back from Poland’s Ukraine aid hub on NATO’s Eastern flank
The US military has stated it planned to withdraw military personnel and equipment from the Polish city of Rzeszów, the main hub for aid for Ukraine, and relocate…
Ukraine caught between US mineral protection deal and EU accession
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has been accused by President Trump of backing out of the latest natural resources deal with the US, according to a report…
Trump ‘pissed off’ with Putin, threatens 25% tariffs on Russian oil
US President Donald Trump has said he was "pissed off" at Russian President Vladimir Putin and would impose secondary tariffs of 25 per cent to 50 per cent on buyers…
Lessons from Minsk II for the Ukraine peace talks
The road to peace in Ukraine is extremely difficult and perhaps also very long, despite president Trump’s initial hopes.
Baltic States and Poland plan to leave agreement banning anti-personnel mines
The defence ministers of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland have recommended to their governments that they should leave the UN-backed Ottawa Convention, an international…
Romanian election bureau rules opposition to EU and NATO membership is anti-constitutional
Romania’s electoral body has disqualified another politician, Diana Șoșoacă, from the presidential election re-run.
Former Georgian president Saakashvili sentenced to extra nine years in prison
A Tbilisi city court has sentenced Georgia's imprisoned former president Mikheil Saakashvili to an additional nine years in jail for embezzlement of public funds.
Poland seeks nuclear weapons cover and wants military training for all its men
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has announced that the government wanted to introduce military training for all adult males and that his country would seek to…
Hungary PM Orbán says financing Ukraine’s war effort would ‘ruin Europe’
The European Union cannot afford to finance Ukraine's military efforts as US financial aid is no longer guaranteed, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has said.
EU-friendly Moldova insists it has not violated diplomatic norms over Russia’s ambassador
Moldova's foreign ministry has rejected allegations by Russia that it had violated diplomatic conventions by declining to formally accept the credentials of Moscow's…
Polish Right urges Zelensky to start negotiations and wants US to deal with Putin
Both Poland’s right-wing parties, the Conservatives (PiS) and the Confederation party, have supported the US President Donald Trump's attempts to kick-start peace…
Courage lies in seeking peace, not in prolonging this war
As soon as Trump took the first steps toward fulfilling his campaign promise to end the war in Ukraine, proponents of confrontation with Russia rose as one across…
European defence stocks soar as leaders call for major military rebuild
European leaders have been scrambling to rebuild their long-neglected militaries, spurred by the US hard-line geopolitical stance in the Eastern Pacific.
France, Britain propose partial one-month Ukraine truce, Macron reveals
France and Britain are proposing a partial one-month truce between Russia and Ukraine that would not cover ground fighting, French President Emmanuel Macron told…
MEPs push to strip Hungary’s veto as Orbán defies EU strategy on Ukraine
Left-wing MEPs have called on Brussels to revoke Hungary's veto power as its Prime Minister Viktor Orbán refused to join the bloc line on the Ukraine war during…
Georgescu’s political detention is a fatal mistake for Romania
The most shocking political events took place on February 26 in Bucharest, where the front-runner in Romania’s presidential elections, Calin Georgescu, was seized…
Moscow refutes Trump’s claim Putin would ‘accept’ European troops in Ukraine
The Kremlin, asked about an assertion by US President Donald Trump that Russia was open to European peacekeepers being deployed in Ukraine, referred reporters…
Time to end ‘pandemical nervosity’ in Europe over Trump
This has been an eventful political week for Europe.
Russia welcomes ‘more balanced’ US stance on Ukraine after UN Security Council vote
The Kremlin on Tuesday welcomed what it described as a much more balanced U.S.
Trump goes into Kremlin’s rat-infested sewer and makes a deal
Realpolitik is the virtue-free art of the politically possible.
Zelensky says he is willing to quit presidency if it means peace in Ukraine
Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said on February 23 that he was willing to give up his position if it meant peace in Ukraine, adding that he could…
Polish opposition’s election candidate blames ‘European elites’ for Ukraine war
Karol Nawrocki, the Polish opposition Conservatives' (PiS) presidential election candidate, has blamed “European elites” for the conflict in Ukraine.
Europe: checkmate
This year will see the 80th anniversary of VE Day, i.e. Victory in Europe over Nazi Germany in May 1945.
Many NATO members are as opposed to Ukraine membership as is Russia
Since my column last week where I attempted to examine President Trump's Gaza proposals in terms that would be more plausible to Europeans than his initial presentation,…
Polish minister: ‘Unfair Ukraine peace deal would embolden China over Taiwan’
Poland’s foreign minister Radosław Sikorski has called US President Donald Trump’s decision to hold direct talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin a “mistake”.
US state secretary Rubio says Europe to be part of ‘any real talks’ on ending Ukraine war
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said Ukraine and Europe would be part of any "real negotiations" to end the war with Russia.
My principles on Ukraine, ‘and if you don’t like them, well, I have others’
After the latest Trump-Putin “pas de deux”, in the ever-evolving theatre of international politics, the diplomatic ballet by European leaders that comes next…