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FP: How Trump could reset with Russia

11:30 14.05.2025

FP: How Trump could reset with Russia

Imagine the scene at Moscow’s annual Victory Day parade one year from now. As the strains of the “Preobrazhensky March” echo across Red Square, a detachment of U.S. Marines enter the parade, their polished boots reflecting the early May sunshine. At the center of the rostrum atop Lenin’s mausoleum, Russian …

Trump says: “European Union is nastier than China”

11:29 14.05.2025

Trump says: “European Union is nastier than China”

President Trump said the "European Union is, in many ways, nastier than China," during a news conference on Monday, ‘Axios’ reports. Why it matters: The stakes of a prolonged U.S.-EU standoff over Trump's tariffs are high. With nearly a trillion dollars worth of trade last year, U.S. companies exported more …

View from London: Uncertainty and tension ahead of possible Ukraine peace talks

11:28 14.05.2025

View from London: Uncertainty and tension ahead of possible Ukraine peace talks

Vladimir Putin has successfully divided Europe and America — again, notes ‘The Economist’. Volodymyr Zelensky on May 11th challenged Vladimir Putin of Russia to meet him in person for peace talks — on condition of a ceasefire that Mr Putin has so far refused. “I’ll be waiting for Putin in …

Von der Leyen faces critical test as EU court decides on secret ‘Pfizergate’ texts

11:26 14.05.2025

Von der Leyen faces critical test as EU court decides on secret ‘Pfizergate’ texts

Ursula von der Leyen's legacy as European Commission president will face a huge challenge this week when the EU court rules on secret text messages she exchanged with the boss of a drug company that agreed a multibillion-euro vaccine deal with Brussels, POLITICO writes. In what's set to be a …

Sergey Ryabkov: Russia hopes to deal directly with Ukraine in Istanbul

20:49 13.05.2025

Sergey Ryabkov: Russia hopes to deal directly with Ukraine in Istanbul

Russia hopes to deal directly with Ukraine in Istanbul, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergey Ryabkov told TASS. "Our position has been clearly stated publicly. Our representatives are getting ready for this meeting. We hope it will be held and will not be used as a PR stunt, a move typical …

Bloomberg: US, China to slash tariffs during 90-day reprieve for talks

11:45 13.05.2025

Bloomberg: US, China to slash tariffs during 90-day reprieve for talks

The US and China will temporarily lower tariffs on each other's products, with the US reducing its levies from 145% to 30% and China dropping its duties from 125% to 10%. The move is seen as a significant de-escalation of trade tensions, with stocks, the dollar, and oil prices rising, …

Netanyahu shows desire to relinquish US security assistance – reports

11:44 13.05.2025

Netanyahu shows desire to relinquish US security assistance – reports

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu showed a desire for a gradual reduction of security and military assistance received from the US, amid differences with the Trump administration, local media reported on Monday. "I think we will need to wean ourselves off American military aid," Netanyahu told the Knesset's Foreign Affairs …

‘The Times’: Putin’s words change, but not his demand that Ukraine surrenders

11:42 13.05.2025

‘The Times’: Putin’s words change, but not his demand that Ukraine surrenders

This article from the London newspaper is interesting - it is for the first time in recent months ‘The Times’ has written about Russia's real demands on Ukraine, which are formulated in two words: demilitarization and denazification. These words mean the replacement of the Nazi government in Kyiv and a …

View from London: Setback for Europe after Trump insists Ukraine has ‘immediate’ peace talks with Russia

11:39 13.05.2025

View from London: Setback for Europe after Trump insists Ukraine has ‘immediate’ peace talks with Russia

Donald Trump’s social media post insisting Ukraine must immediately start peace talks with Russia has set back, and possibly jeopardised, Europe’s carefully laid plans to persuade the US to impose sanctions on Moscow for refusing the US president’s proposal for a 30-day ceasefire, European diplomats have said, writes ‘The Guardian’. …

‘The National Interest’: Trump’s minerals deal with Ukraine is a national security disaster

11:09 12.05.2025

‘The National Interest’: Trump’s minerals deal with Ukraine is a national security disaster

Yet again, the Ukrainians are trying to pull the Americans into a deepening — and widening — commitment to their defense. It is not in America’s interests to go along, writes Brandon J. Weichert, a senior national security editor at ‘The National Interest’. When President Donald Trump was elected, he …

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