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Second crisis Ukraine summit planned for Wednesday

More EU leaders, plus Norway and Canada, are expected to attend, 48 hours after previous talks.

February 18, 2025 7:46 pm CET

Moscow’s media gloats over US-Russia talks

The meeting in Saudi Arabia is seen by Kremlin acolytes as Putin coming back in from the cold.

February 18, 2025 4:50 pm CET

Russia: Ukraine has a ‘sovereign right’ to join EU — but not NATO

Moscow “won’t dictate anything” to Kyiv, unless it’s related to military alliances.

February 18, 2025 12:31 pm CET

Latvia’s president: ‘Never stop panicking’

Keep calm and carry on? Nah — everybody panic, Edgars Rinkēvičs advises.

February 18, 2025 4:56 am CET

Europe is on the brink of another financial crisis, German front-runner Merz warns

It’s “definitely coming,” he tells POLITICO ahead of the Feb. 23 election.

February 18, 2025 4:02 am CET

Europe’s big guns sideline the EU to get real on Ukraine

Macron’s mini-summit shunned Brussels’ normal obsession with consensus and revealed a new core with the region’s future in their hands. 

February 18, 2025 4:00 am CET

Europe’s leaders find no quick response to Trump’s bombshell on Ukraine

Common ground proves elusive, including on sending peacekeepers.

February 17, 2025 10:13 pm CET

Germany’s Scholz: It’s ‘inappropriate’ to discuss sending peacekeeping troops to Ukraine

Ukraine doesn’t have to accept whatever peace plan Russia and the United States present, Scholz added.

February 17, 2025 7:49 pm CET

Is Britain really ready to lead a Ukraine peacekeeping force?

Keir Starmer has made a big offer on European security, but the country’s army is hugely stretched.

February 17, 2025 7:05 pm CET

EU-wide borrowing for defense a ‘no-brainer,’ says Spain’s finance minister

The bloc is grappling with a need to increase defense spending, amid U.S. President Donald Trump’s sudden move to end the war in Ukraine.

February 17, 2025 6:44 pm CET

Poland to Europe: Don’t play games with Trump, spend more on defense

The Polish PM is adamant that Europe must not break ties with the U.S.

February 17, 2025 5:44 pm CET

Macron and Trump have ‘frank conversation’ minutes before European meeting on Ukraine

The call came before the French president welcomed a group of European leaders in Paris.

February 17, 2025 5:09 pm CET
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UK’s Starmer to meet Trump next week

Prime minister heads to Washington to meet with US president as European capitals fret over Ukraine’s future.

February 17, 2025 3:53 pm CET

EU top brass plans Kyiv visit amid US-Russia talks

The trip will take place in a show of solidarity as Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine hits the three-year mark, one EU official said.

February 17, 2025 1:22 pm CET

‘Freezing’ Ukraine war would allow Russia to threaten NATO, Latvian intelligence warns

Pausing hostilities, which U.S. President Trump has vowed to do, would free up Kremlin resources to threaten countries across the alliance, the report says.

February 17, 2025 12:08 pm CET

Angry farmers push Poland away from Ukraine

After nearly three years of war in Ukraine, protests by Polish farmers are opening up social and political fractures in a once-unshakeable alliance.

February 17, 2025 4:44 am CET

UK ‘ready’ to send peacekeepers to Ukraine, PM Starmer says

Ahead of a crunch meeting in Paris on Monday, the U.K. leader commits to putting British troops in harm’s way to secure a lasting peace in Ukraine.

February 17, 2025 3:19 am CET

Putin likely to strike NATO nations next, Zelenskyy warns

The Ukrainian president says he won’t accept a peace agreement if his country is iced out of talks.

February 16, 2025 5:35 pm CET

As US recedes, NATO scrambles to find a new leader

The Brits, French, and Germans all have their own ideas about how to defend the continent with America’s plans in flux. 

February 16, 2025 2:26 pm CET

The US said Ukraine would meet with Russia to discuss peace. That was news to Kyiv.

“I do not know what it is,” said Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.

February 16, 2025 1:56 pm CET

France confirms emergency European summit Monday in Paris

The “main European countries” will discuss the continent’s security, French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said.

February 16, 2025 1:50 pm CET
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Trump team to start Russia-Ukraine peace talks in Saudi Arabia

A Ukrainian official said Kyiv wasn’t informed and doesn’t plan to attend.

February 15, 2025 7:30 pm CET

Scholz calls for reform of German debt brake right after election

The chancellor, who is trailing in the polls ahead of the Feb. 23 snap election, expressed confidence that Germany will have a parliamentary majority to loosen the debt brake.

February 15, 2025 1:28 pm CET

Rutte: NATO spending target will be ‘considerably more than 3 percent’

“The U.S. is rightly asking for a rebalancing of that,” said Rutte. “It’s totally logical.”

February 15, 2025 12:50 pm CET
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