US president Donald Trump has vowed to impose a 25 per cent tariff on all imports from the European Union. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Europe needs to rediscover its taste for risk, ambition and power in the face of the unpredictability of the United States under Donald Trump. Europe needs to be more independent both on Ukraine and on customs duties,

Trump vindicated the French president on self-reliant defense. But with Putin looming, the hard work starts now for Europe.

The French president insisted that 'Europeans will have to respond' to his American counterpart's threat to hit the European Union with 25% tariffs.

French President Emmanuel Macron said a truce between Russia and Ukraine could be just weeks away, paving the way for sustainable peace negotiations, but warned it must be a "substantial" deal backed

Macron used his extensive repertoire of compliments, tactile body language and handshakes that never seemed to end on “Dear Donald.” And he even got away with correcting him in the Oval Office over his false claims that Washington had almost doubled Europe’s support for Ukraine.

Trump's rhetoric at the time sparked a major debate over the future of European security. Macron, who also took office in 2017, began to propose the formation of a "true European army" as an alternative to NATO and famously warned of the "brain death" of the alliance in 2019.

President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said that he had a conversation with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron. They discussed the recent visit of the French

To immediately free up budgetary leeway to finance his country's rearmament, the incoming chancellor plans to vote in a special €200 billion fund for the army. He hopes to reform the strict budgetary rules – the "debt brake" – enshrined in the Basic Law, with the support of the outgoing Bundestag.