A three-way meeting between Ukraine, Russia and the United States will take place in Abu Dhabi on Friday and Saturday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said Thursday. The summit would represent the first time the three countries have sat down together since Moscow launched its all-out attack on Ukraine almost four years ago. Zelenskyy, however, did […]
Continue ReadingThe motion’s proponents argued that von der Leyen and her team of commissioners should be dismissed over their handling of the EU–Mercosur trade deal, which they claim undermines European farmers by opening up the European market to unfair competition. Three similar motions had already been defeated over the past seven months. The threshold needed to […]
Continue ReadingA spokesperson for Belgium’s foreign ministry told POLITICO on Thursday that it was “monitoring” the case together with the Belgian embassy in Astana. “We are providing our fellow citizens with the necessary consular support,” the spokesperson said. British actor Sacha Baron Cohen created the character Borat, a fictional Kazakh journalist, in a satirical TV show […]
Continue ReadingMerz urged European nations to move swiftly to boost their defense spending and economic competitiveness in order to be able to exert power amid the “tectonic” shifts in the global order. At the same time, he urged Germans and other Europeans not to give up on the transatlantic alliance and NATO, advocating, in effect, a […]
Continue ReadingThe Dutch have also declined to take part, while a Danish diplomat, like others granted anonymity to discuss a sensitive topic, told POLITICO that Copenhagen was not even invited to join. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, who is considering whether to take part, said Tuesday it was “very difficult to imagine how we and Russia would […]
Continue ReadingPresident Donald Trump said he’s reached an agreement with NATO on a Greenland framework and will not be imposing planned tariffs on European allies. The president said in a social media post the deal “will be a great one” for both the U.S. and NATO allies, but did not elaborate on the details of the agreement with […]
Continue ReadingOTTAWA — A federal court has overturned a Liberal government order to shut down TikTok Canada’s business operations, ordering Industry Minister Mélanie Joly to take another look at the app that more than 14 million Canadians use. On Wednesday, a federal court judge quashed the Liberal government’s order that would have shuttered the tech company’s […]
Continue ReadingUnlike his predecessors, Trump doesn’t observe the courteous fiction that the transatlantic alliance is one of equals. He has stripped all that away; his approach to diplomacy is that he is the boss and his allies need to understand their places. Time and again, he has put Washington’s transatlantic allies on the spot — from […]
Continue ReadingPresident Donald Trump said he will meet Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Thursday. The president’s meeting with Zelenskyy is scheduled to take place after a Gaza Board of Peace event in Davos and follows bilateral meetings on Wednesday with NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte and the leaders […]
Continue ReadingPresident Donald Trump ruled out military force to acquire Greenland in his remarks Wednesday to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, providing a momentary sense of relief to Europe after weeks of worry that the U.S. would enter a confrontation with NATO. “We probably won’t get anything unless I decide to use excessive strength […]
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