Five years after it left the European Union, Britain may have finally found a new role on the global stage — a gig that looks curiously like its old one. In the frantic few weeks since President Trump upended the trans-Atlantic alliance with his overtures to Russia and rift with …
Germany’s next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, set European pigeons flying in circles when he suggested last month that given rising mistrust in President Trump’s commitment to NATO, he wanted to talk to France and Britain about extending nuclear deterrence over Germany. Warning that a “profound change of American geopolitics” had put …
In the weeks after President Emmanuel Macron called a snap election last summer that resulted in a deeply divided French Parliament, if his name came up it was often to call for his resignation. The unpopular president, long derided by critics as aloof, all-controlling and arrogant, looked certain to ride …
For decades a core objective of the Soviet Union was to “decouple” the United States from Europe. Decoupling, as it was called, would break the Western alliance that kept Soviet tanks from rolling across the Prussian plains. Now, in weeks, President Trump has handed Moscow the gift that eluded it …
For decades a core objective of the Soviet Union was to “decouple” the United States from Europe. Decoupling, as it was called, would break the Western alliance that kept Soviet tanks from rolling across the Prussian plains. Now, in weeks, President Trump has handed Moscow the gift that eluded it …
If the old saying is true, that you are known by who your friends are, then President Trump may be telling the world something about who he plans to be in this second term. In a move that redrew the international order, Mr. Trump this week had the United States …
Follow live updates on the Trump administration. President Emmanuel Macron of France struck a chummy tone with President Trump even as he corrected him with a smile in Washington on Monday. That one-two punch of flattery and gentle resistance is an example of how some European leaders are trying to …
President Emmanuel Macron of France called a second emergency meeting of European allies on Wednesday seeking to recalibrate relations with the United States as President Trump upends international politics by rapidly changing American alliances. Mr. Macron had already assembled a dozen European leaders in Paris on Monday after Mr. Trump …
The leaders of many of Europe’s biggest countries came to Paris on Monday in an effort to forge a strategy for their own security, as President Trump’s envoys prepared for talks with Russia over ending the war in Ukraine without them. The meeting in Paris was pulled together hastily after …
Vice President JD Vance told European and Asian leaders in Paris on Tuesday that the Trump Administration was adapting an aggressive, America First approach to the race to dominate all the building blocks of artificial intelligence, and warned Europeans to dismantle regulations and get aboard with Washington. On his first …
