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The matter of Russian energy exports is being discussed in talks with the United States, Moscow says.

Supporters of the Make America Great Again movement have openly embraced the latest attempted smear from Europe, who, according to an article in The Atlantic, have dubbed them “Brutal Americans”.

President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he had a “very good telephone call” with Ukrainian President Voloydymr Zelensky, following up on his conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin the previous day.

Peter Navarro, President Donald Trump’s senior counselor for trade and manufacturing, told “The Alex Marlow Show” that although China is notorious for ripping America off on trade, many other countries are just as guilty.

U.S. Vice President JD Vance has warned that Europe risks “civilisational suicide” if it continues to undermine liberties and engage in mass migration policies.

CBS News reported on Thursday that the Trump administration is considering further restrictions on Russian oil, gas, and banking, even as the European Union (EU) prepares to remove several ultra-rich Russian oligarchs from its sanctions list under pressure from Hungary and Slovakia.

President Donald Trump hammered the Wall Street Journal, which has been highly critical of his tariff policies, and declared the United States does not currently enjoy free trade, in a pair of Truth Social posts on Thursday.

The European Union is reportedly seeking to put pressure specifically on Republican-controlled states as it enacts so-called retaliatory tariff measures on American businesses amid the trade war with the Trump administration.

The Constitutional Court of Romania has rejected the appeals of former presidential candidate Călin Georgescu against a ban on his candidacy in upcoming elections, a move supporters have claimed is an affront to the democratic process.

Unexpected election result sees legacy parties out of power and more right-wing, pro-American politicians dominate Greenland for first time.

America’s trade deficit with the European Union ballooned to over $215 billion last year as U.S. exports decreased and imports from the bloc increased, a trend that President Donald Trump seeks to reverse.

A common “European Defence Union” will be necessary to “deter” Russia in light of demands from the Trump administration that the bloc pays for its own defence, EU Chief Ursula von der Leyen said.

Chaos broke out on the streets of Bucharest on Sunday evening as supporters of former presidential frontrunner Călin Georgescu reacted with rage after Romania’s Central Electoral Bureau barred him from running again following the annulled November elections in which he won the first round of voting.

The European Union saw over a million over a million asylum applications lodged by foreigners for the second straight year in 2024, the international migration regulator disclosed this week.

European Union (E.U.) leaders holding emergency talks in Brussels agreed Thursday to begin a massive increase in defence spending in the wake of President Donald Trump’s demands for less reliance on U.S. taxpayer largesse in hardware, funding, and intelligence sharing.

President Donald Trump asserted on Tuesday that European countries have spent more money buying Russian oil and natural gas than they have on supporting Ukraine.

The European Union (EU) has been talking very tough about its unwavering and unlimited support for Ukraine since Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s disastrous visit to the White House, but data published by an independent research organization shows the EU spent more on Russian oil and gas in 2024 than it spent on Ukraine.

Commentators reacted with seething fury over a perceived insult against the British Army by Vice President JD Vance.

Politicians in Britain and Europe flew into a complete meltdown after U.S. President Donald Trump announced a suspension of American aid to Ukraine, with some going so far as to suggest the leader of the free world is a “traitor” and a “Russian asset”.

Leaders “puff up their chests” and say they back perma-war in public but are honest about the need to end it quickly in private, Vance said.

The Ukraine war summit in London ended on Sunday with essentially as many questions remaining as before the meeting. No announcement was made of any other European nations willing to join Britain and France in committing troops on the ground, and continued demands were made that the United States underwrite the safety of any such force.

U.S. President Donald Trump publicly affirmed Thursday he is working on a trade deal with the UK and suggested Britain could be exempt from tariffs if one is agreed, setting the country on its own post-Brexit path as the European Union braces for punitive imposts.

The EU has “done a good job” screwing the U.S. on trade, Trump said during his first cabinet meeting, intoning those days are now over. 

Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan claimed on Monday that his country was interested in becoming a member of the anti-American BRICS coalition but never received an invite and that BRICS had suspended allowing new members at all.

European leaders flocked to Ukraine on Monday to pledge their support on the third anniversary of the Russian invasion, badly rattled by President Donald Trump’s negotiations with Russia and public feud with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.

EU begins easing energy, banking, and transport restrictions against Syria, aiming to help breathe life into the conflict-torn country.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan held a closed-door meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in Istanbul on Friday, taking another step toward establishing Turkey as one of Ukraine’s most devoted supporters amid a public feud between Zelensky and President Donald Trump.

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán issued a dire warning on Tuesday of plans by the “globalist-liberal-Soros NGO network” to double down their operations in Europe amid the crackdown on leftist foreign aid projects by the Trump administration.

It will be impossible to justify U.S. military spending to voters if it is used to protect Euros that increasingly act like the bad guys.

The outcome of the German Federal elections this week will likely determine whether conscription will return to the country as the government finds itself thousands of soldiers short of what it thinks it needs.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Thursday he had a “productive meeting” with retired Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) said Wednesday on Fox News Channel’s “The Will Cain Show” that both Ukraine and European allies will “have to” be brought into the Russia-Ukraine war negotiations.

Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen announced on Tuesday that the Kingdom of Denmark will “massively” increase its military spending as European nations grapple with the reality that they can no longer merely rely on the American taxpayer to subsidise their defence.

Monday’s meeting in Paris appears to have validated the Trump administration’s reluctance to include European leaders in Ukraine peace talks as deep divides remain on Europe’s role in the peace process.

The Trump administration has reportedly called on European nations to outline the number of troops and weapons they are willing to commit to a peacekeeping force in Ukraine amid growing complaints from the continent of being sidelined from negotiations.

Leaders from key European countries will gather Monday to discuss the continent’s security in a rushed meeting as U.S. efforts to end the Ukraine war pick up speed. France’s President Emmanuel Macron will lead the hastily convened meeting in Paris.