KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — President Donald Trump this week falsely blamed Ukraine for starting the war that has cost tens of thousands of Ukrainian lives, causing outrage and alarm in a country that has spent…
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29 times Donald Trump did what Putin wanted – POLITICO
1. Picking up the phone: Almost three years after Russia’s unprovoked, full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Trump decided it was time to re-establish direct contact between the president of the United States and Putin, a leader facing…
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US objects to phrase ‘Russian aggression’ in G7 statement on Ukraine
The US is opposed to calling Russia the aggressor in a G7 statement on the third anniversary of Moscow’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, threatening to derail a traditional show of unity, according to western officials.
Ukrainian President…
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Taking the Pulse: Is the Transatlantic Relationship at a Breaking Point?
Linas Kojala
Director of the Geopolitics and Security Studies Center, Vilnius
On one hand, there is no real alternative to the U.S. security guarantee. Declaring that the transatlantic relationship has collapsed would be like stepping off a ship in…
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Trump is ruling like a ‘king’, following the Putin model. How can he be stopped?
A month in, and it is clear even to conservatives that US President Donald Trump is attempting to fundamentally reshape the role of the American president.
Trump and his supporters sees the natural authority of the American president in…
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Ukraine’s natural resources are at centre stage in the ongoing war, and will likely remain there
Three years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the world now knows the exact price for American military support of Ukraine. During a recent interview with Fox News, United States President Donald Trump put a $500 billion price tag on…
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A dataset for monitoring agricultural drought in Europe
The CDI assumes that the development of agricultural drought is a top-down (hierarchical) linear process, where a shortage of precipitation (Watch stage) triggers declining soil moisture conditions (Warning stage) which, in turn, promotes…
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Life expectancy growth stalls across Europe as England sees sharpest decline, say researchers | Life expectancy
Life expectancy improvement is stalling across Europe with England experiencing the biggest slowdown. Experts are blaming this on an alarming mix of poor diet, mass inactivity and soaring obesity.
The average annual growth in life expectancy…
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Europe’s energy information problem
Institutions established in support of the European Energy Union
In 2009, the EU adopted rules – known as the Third Energy Package – aimed at further liberalising energy markets and deepening integration. Among other measures,…
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