A behind-the-scenes foreign policy disagreement between President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance spilled into public Monday, an extraordinary example of Vance breaking with Trump and other members of his administration and calling the…
Category: 3. Europe
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Erdogan calls protests a ‘movement of violence’ – DW – 03/24/2025
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Erdogan condemns protests over rival’s arrest as ‘movement of violence’
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said protests over the…
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Trump says car tariffs coming ‘in next few days’
President Donald Trump indicated Monday that he could announce new tariffs on imported cars as soon as this week, as his administration works toward a larger “reciprocal tariff” package hitting a broad swath of countries on April 2.
“We…
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7 bargaining chips Trump has given Putin over Ukraine
In seeking a historic peace accord between Russia and Ukraine, President Donald Trump has presented himself as an agnostic arbiter focused only on bringing the three-year war to an end.
But his divergent approach to the parties — quick to…
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5 revelations from the Trump administration’s war plan texts
The revelation that the nation’s top security officials accidentally shared war plans with a journalist on Signal shocked Washington on Monday, even before people knew what was in them.
The chat, set up by national security adviser Mike…
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‘Amateur hour’: Washington aghast at Trump administration’s war plan group chat
Members of Congress and national security staffers were stunned Monday by a bombshell report that top Trump administration officials — including the vice president and Defense secretary — discussed war plans in a Signal group chat.
“Only…
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Allemagne : pourquoi les négociations de coalition se tendent
BERLIN — Pour Friedrich Merz, le plus dur commence maintenant.
Le futur chancelier conservateur a entamé les négociations de coalition avec les sociaux-démocrates en leur donnant exactement ce que les partis de centre gauche ont toujours…
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Zelenskyy addresses bust-up with Trump and Vance – POLITICO
American support for Ukraine has been in question since the Jan. 20 inauguration as Trump has frequently made clear his disdain for Kyiv’s leadership — a stance the Oval Office meeting brought into sharp focus. “In that moment there was…
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Trump threatens a 25 percent tariff on countries that buy oil and gas from Venezuela
President Donald Trump on Monday threatened to impose a 25 percent tariff on countries that purchase oil or gas from Venezuela — escalating tensions with the country that has been a primary target of his administration’s sweeping deportation…
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Record online shopping fueling Europe’s textile waste problem, watchdog warns – POLITICO
In 2022, EU citizens bought about 19 kilograms of new clothes, shoes and other household fabrics each — up from 17 kilograms in 2019 — yet throwing out as much as 16 kilograms of clothes annually.
This created about 7 million metric…
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