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View from Washington: “European defense companies are inefficient, slow and rarely support the hardware that comes out of their factories”

11:08 10.03.2025

View from Washington: “European defense companies are inefficient, slow and rarely support the hardware that comes out of their factories”

Europe is almost totally unprepared to act as a collective force. Big talk, low performance, writes Stephen Bryen, a former US Deputy Under Secretary of Defense. Ursula Von Der Leyen, the President of the European Commission has proposed that Europe increase its defense spending by 1.5% GDP over the average …

Bloomberg: The German economy is down a ladder that leads down

11:06 10.03.2025

Bloomberg: The German economy is down a ladder that leads down

German factory orders fell 7% in January, driven by a decline in orders for machines and vehicles, Bloomberg reports. German factory orders fell in January by the most in a year, a poor start to a quarter when Europe’s largest economy may have struggled to achieve any growth at all. …

View from ACURA: Trump freed himself from Biden anti-Russian policy

11:01 09.03.2025

View from ACURA: Trump freed himself from Biden anti-Russian policy

In negotiating with Vladimir Putin over the fate of Ukraine, President Trump appears to have freed himself from the policies of his predecessor: a misguided effort by neoconservative think tanks and US government officials to capitalize on Ukraine’s divided social and political history in the hope of weakening Russia as …

Saudi Wealth Fund blocks PwC from advisory work for one year

10:59 09.03.2025

Saudi Wealth Fund blocks PwC from advisory work for one year

Saudi Arabia’s wealth fund has temporarily banned PwC from advisory and consulting services contracts, people familiar with matter said, halting the firm’s progress in one of the world’s most lucrative markets, Bloomberg informs. Executives at the $925 billion Public Investment Fund and its more than 100 subsidiaries have been told …

View from Hong Kong: Ukraine debacle signals the death of Atlanticism

10:57 09.03.2025

View from Hong Kong: Ukraine debacle signals the death of Atlanticism

With Trump advocating for an end to the Ukraine war and signaling a hard shift in US policy, Europe finds itself caught in a geopolitical non-man’s land. It alienated China, severed economic ties with Russia and failed to anticipate Trump’s historic strategic shift, notes ‘The Asian Times’. Making matters worse, …

POLITICO: EU promises big on defense but… “leaders locking horns over how to finance an €800 billion defense rampup”

10:54 09.03.2025

POLITICO: EU promises big on defense but… “leaders locking horns over how to finance an €800 billion defense rampup”

Concern about a potential U.S. withdrawal or downgrade in Europe's security architecture has set off one of the biggest geopolitical crises to hit the continent in decades, with leaders engaging in a frenzy of diplomacy over the past two weeks, writes POLITICO. Despite everything that's happened in the six short …

Europe’s nightmare is here: They have to fight without the US

9:49 08.03.2025

Europe’s nightmare is here: They have to fight without the US

The Oval Office blow up between Zelenskiy and Trump laid bare for many Europeans that something critical has broken in their relationship with Washington, notes Bloomberg. European leaders are confronting their worst-case scenario: maybe they really are going to be dealing with a bellicose Russia alone. In interviews with Bloomberg, …

FOX: Zelenskyy irritated not only Trump but Biden also

9:47 08.03.2025

FOX: Zelenskyy irritated not only Trump but Biden also

Trump isn't the first US commander in chief to lose patience with Zelenskyy, notes FOX News, reminding a 2022 report. Months after war broke out between Russia and Ukraine, then-President Joe Biden had a fiery private phone call with Ukraine Zelenskyy, which included Biden allegedly losing "his temper" and calling …

Trump to revoke legal status for more than 210,000 Ukrainians as US steps up deportations

9:45 08.03.2025

Trump to revoke legal status for more than 210,000 Ukrainians as US steps up deportations

President Donald Trump intends to launch a “light speed” mass deportation campaign as soon as he “puts his hand on that Bible and takes the oath of office,” top aide Stephen Miller has boasted, writes ‘The Washington Post’. The universe of potential deportees — immigrants living in the United States …

Arab Summit Declaration rejects displacement of Palestinian people, supports Egypt’s Gaza reconstruction plan

9:44 08.03.2025

Arab Summit Declaration rejects displacement of Palestinian people, supports Egypt’s Gaza reconstruction plan

The Extraordinary Arab Summit held in Cairo on Tuesday reasserted the united Arab position, rejecting any displacement of the Palestinian people, whether from Gaza or the West Bank, while supporting Egypt's Gaza reconstruction plan and calling for an international conference to recognize Palestinian statehood, Al Ahram reports. In their final …

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