COMMENTARY: Putin’s word is sufficient for Trump. But it isn’t enough for Europeans — or Ukrainians.

They can’t overlook Putin’s militaristic history or his determination to restore Russia’s status as a great power.

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Europe enters a pivotal week for the future of its security — after a summit in London that delivered plenty of promises but few concrete answers.

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COMMENTARY: No one could have predicted just how spectacularly US-Ukraine relations were driven off a cliff at Friday's Oval Office meeting. Now the question is, can the damage be undone?

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France's foreign affairs minister has voiced his confusion over reports that US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered a halt of offensive cyber operations against Russia.

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A call by Britain's US ambassador for Ukraine to unilaterally announce a cease-fire before Russia does is "not government policy," a minister insisted.

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UK leader Keir Starmer is hardly the most obvious wartime envoy — and yet in the weeks since Donald Trump first shocked allies with his stance on Ukraine, the British prime minister has emerged as a leading player in the international response.

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🚨 BREAKING: European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has proposed a new €150 billion common defense fund.

The announcement comes hours after US President Donald Trump decided to stop all military aid to Ukraine.

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EU leaders and officials doubled down on their support to Ukraine after Donald Trump halted all military aid from the US to the country yesterday evening.

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As the bloc's 27 leaders gather in Brussels tomorrow, they'll contemplate how they can bolster national armies and demonstrate support for Ukraine.

But diplomats are already bracing for pro-Russian EU governments to derail the whole thing.

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The US halt in sending military aid to Ukraine could leave the country vulnerable to aerial attacks just as Russia is gearing up for a massive increase in drone and missile strikes.

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Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz announced a plan yesterday to effectively exempt defense spending from the country’s constitutional spending restraints.

The move would harness hundreds of billions of euros for defense and infrastructure.

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The lobbying budgets of the largest European defense companies surged around 40 percent between 2022 and 2023, a data investigation by POLITICO found.

France is warming up to the possibility of seizing Russian frozen assets to help Ukraine, said an official with direct knowledge of talks.

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Donald Trump’s treatment of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy during their tense meeting at the White House last week was “wrong,” former British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said.

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Germany is pushing Brussels to reform freshly agreed fiscal rules to allow for greater defense spending, marking a dramatic policy shift driven by transatlantic developments.

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The threat of a prolonged war in Ukraine without military backing from the US is leading EU politicians to contemplate the emergence of a fresh wave of huge numbers of refugees.

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Prompted by Donald Trump’s decision to turn away from Europe, leaders of the EU’s 27 countries are meeting in Brussels today to urgently discuss defense funding.

Without the US on its side, it’s not an exaggeration to say the future of the continent is at stake.

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The EU is getting ready to tap markets for up to €150 billion to help finance military spending.

If it does, it shouldn’t have any trouble finding takers.

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Germany’s historic turnaround on public spending has sent shockwaves through financial markets, sending the euro and government borrowing costs sharply higher.

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EU leaders are arriving for a high-stakes summit in Brussels today to show Europe is serious about defending itself — and Ukraine — as it confronts the era of Trump 2.0.

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