EU Confronts Defense Gaps as Trump Backs Away From Ukraine
European Union leaders arriving in Brussels Thursday urged a revolutionary change to rebuild military infrastructure after decades of neglect and create a brand new security architecture in order to counter Russia.
Trump condemns Russia bombing Ukraine
President Donald Trump said he believed Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted peace after a Russian missile attack on Kharkiv, Ukraine, on March 7.
Trump Threatens Russia With Sanctions Until Ukraine Peace Agreed
President Donald Trump raised the prospect of imposing large-scale U.S. sanctions on Russia on Friday, days after pausing aid and intelligence sharing to Ukraine, and called on both countries to get on with negotiating a peace deal.
EU Proposes €150 Billion Defense Loan as Trump Pulls Back
The European Union will propose extending €150 billion ($158 billion) in loans to boost defense spending as the bloc tries to adjust to US President Donald Trump’s abrupt pullback of American security on the continent.
Trump says Ukraine 'more difficult' to deal with than Russia
US President Donald Trump has said he is finding it "more difficult, frankly, to deal with Ukraine" than Russia in attempts to broker peace between the two nations. The US is "doing very well with Russia",
Trump threatens 'large scale' sanctions on Russia until a peace deal with Ukraine is reached
Trump has spent weeks bashing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and, this week, the U.S. paused giving military aid to and sharing intelligence with Ukraine.
EU Sees No Need to De-Risk Relations with US, Von der Leyen Says
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said that even as “decades-old certainties are crumbling” in Europe’s ...
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Growing Wall Street threat spurs EU to speed up banking review
The European Commission has vowed to speed up a planned review of the competitiveness of the bloc’s banks after the region’s three biggest economies demanded urgent action to ensure their lenders can ...