Ukraine

Here’s our handy guide to who’s up — and who’s down — in Ursula von der Leyen’s initial proposal.

“There is no indication that Putin wants peace,” Baiba Braže cautioned on the sidelines of the Aspen Security Forum.

Germany’s leader will use a London visit Thursday to finalize a wide-ranging pact that goes big on security cooperation.

Simmering internal criticism of the European Commission president came to the boil over a messy, confused and secretive spending plan that highlighted divisions and revealed political fragilities.

“They will be very, very powerful and very bad for the countries involved,” the president warned of his secondary tariffs.

With a heavy dose of Realpolitik, Germany and other European countries got the U.S. administration to aid Ukraine without directly confronting Putin.

U.S. president has said Europe should pay for the missile systems Kyiv needs, but the bloc’s top diplomat wants to split the bill.

Moscow is using banned chemical weapons to inflict as “much pain and suffering” as possible to force Ukraine to surrender, Kaja Kallas said.

Valery Gergiev will perform at a festival in Italy, his first European concert since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022.

Asked whether he was done with Vladimir Putin, the American president said: “I’m disappointed in him, but I’m not done with him.”

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Privately pessimistic about the war, the president argues his new alignment with NATO allies isn’t a departure from “America First.”

In the age of Putin, Trump and Xi, the stakes for the next EU budget could not be higher.

The president said European allies will pay for the systems, which will come from American stockpiles.

Ukrainian president has tapped key ally and current Deputy Prime Minister Yuliia Svyrydenko to lead the government.

“I am very disappointed with President Putin,” Trump said ahead of meeting with NATO chief Mark Rutte.

Rome and Athens have identified Turkish and Russian involvement in a growing security threat from North Africa.

The administration’s first military assistance to Ukraine would come after a controversial halt in weapons to Kyiv.

Europe’s mission to tackle migration flows from North Africa became a fiasco in a row over a photo opportunity.

“We’re sending weapons to NATO, and NATO is paying for those weapons,” U.S. president says.

Ursula von der Leyen survived a motion of censure — but not without sustaining damage. In Strasbourg, tensions within her pro-European coalition burst into the open, with …

“We simply can’t solve a challenge like this by acting alone,” British prime minister says — as French president says Brexit sold Brits “a lie.”

Während Russland weiter angreift, trifft sich die Welt in Rom: Auf der Ukraine Recovery Conference spricht Kanzler Friedrich Merz Klartext und richtet einen Appell an Donald Trump: …