6 h. ago Starmer calls on European leaders to modernise ECHR ahead of gathering

European ministers, including Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy, are due to meet in Strasbourg, France, on Wednesday to discuss reforming the treaty.

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8 h. ago Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right

Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect bordersWe must protect our borders to defend our democracies – here’s howKeir Starmer has called on European leaders to urgently curb joint human rights laws so that member states can take tougher action to protect their borders and see off the rise of the populist right across the continent.Before a crucial European summit on Wednesday, the prime minister urged fellow members to “go further” in modernising the interpretation of the European convention on human rights (ECHR) to prevent asylum seekers using it to avoid deportation. Continue reading...

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9 h. ago The Guardian view on Trump and Europe: more an abusive relationship than an alliance | Editorial

The White House is aggressively seeking to weaken and dominate the United States’ traditional allies. European leaders must learn to fight back.Sir Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich Merz have become adept at scrambling to deal with the latest bad news from Washington. Their meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy in Downing Street on Monday was so hastily arranged that Mr Macron needed to be back in Paris by late afternoon to meet Croatia’s prime minister, while Mr Merz was due on television for an end-of-year Q&A with the German public.But diplomatic improvisation alone cannot fully answer Donald Trump’s structural threat to European security. The US president and his emissaries are trying to bully Mr Zelenskyy into an unjust peace deal that suits American and Russian interests. In response, the summit helped ramp up support for the use of up to £100bn in frozen Russian assets as collateral for a “reparations loan” to Ukraine. European counter-proposals for a ceasefire will ...

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10 h. ago Trump says European leaders are ‘weak’ and countries are ‘decaying’ in extraordinary attack on US allies

US president launches tirade against European nations over migration and the war in Ukraine

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10 h. ago European leaders agree to fund Ukraine for 2 years but using Russian assets poses a major test

European Union leaders have committed to funding Ukraine's economic and military needs for the next two years

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13 h. ago Europe needs to shove Trump aside – it has the power to stop Putin in Ukraine and it must use it

Donald Trump is a Russian ally and is trying to force surrender on Ukraine – Europe can and must stop him, world affairs editor Sam Kiley explains how

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14 h. ago Donald Trump criticises European leaders and renews attacks on Sadiq Khan

The US president addressed subjects such as immigration and the Ukraine war in a wide-ranging interview.

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14 h. ago UK working with partners on Ukraine peace, Starmer says as Trump blasts Europe

The US president criticised crisis talks among European leaders for failing to ‘produce’ anything.

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15 h. ago Trump says European leaders are ‘weak’ in extraordinary attack on US allies

US president launches broadside against European countries over migration and the war in Ukraine

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16 h. ago German leader says US strategy shows the need for more European security independence

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz says the Trump administration’s new national security strategy underscores the need for Europe to become “much more independent” from the United States in terms of security policy

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18 h. ago We asked critics from authoritarian regimes what they wish they’d known sooner. Here’s what they said

Critics from Hungary, El Salvador and Turkey offer advice to the US about what they’ve learned about authoritariansDonald Trump makes no secret of his admiration for strongmen like Hungary’s Viktor Orbán or El Salvador’s Nayib Bukele. Last month, he praised Orbán’s hardline stance on immigration and urged European leaders to show more “respect” for the president; earlier this year his administration struck a deal with Bukele to send more than 200 detained migrants to a notorious, maximum-security prison in El Salvador.Many international organizations, experts and historians have sounded the alarm about the United States heading in a similar direction as these authoritarian regimes. Continue reading...

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19 h. ago Deal to release ‘£100bn of Russian assets’ for Ukraine expected imminently

British officials said they were hopeful a deal would be agreed to unlock the value of immobilised Russian sovereign assets in the coming days

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19 h. ago Zelenskyy Meets European Leaders In London As EU Signals Support, Trump Remains Skeptical

Zelenskyy Meets European Leaders In London As EU Signals Support, Trump Remains Skeptical  Arise News

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24 h. ago Zelenskyy Meets European Leaders In London To Discuss US Peace Plan

Zelenskyy Meets European Leaders In London To Discuss US Peace Plan  Outlook India

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27 h. ago Keir Starmer tells Zelensky the UK is ready to hand £8billion in frozen Russian assets to assist Ukraine's war effort

The move is part of a wider push that could give Kyiv access to holdings worth tens of billions of pounds locked in EU countries.

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32 h. ago European leaders rally behind Ukraine in Downing Street talks

Hopes rise of a breakthrough in using £78bn of frozen Russian assets to bankroll KyivEuropean leaders rallied behind Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Monday night amid hopes they might finally achieve a breakthrough to allow Ukraine access to billions of pounds of frozen Russian assets.Despite vociferous support for the Ukrainian president, who has come under heavy pressure from Donald Trump to cede territory in order to bring the war to a speedy end, there was still no agreement on the thorny question of turning immobilised assets into a loan for Kyiv. Continue reading...

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32 h. ago Ukraine's allies rally to Zelensky after Trump swipe as peace talks at 'critical' stage

Keir Starmer and other European leaders held crisis talks with Volodymyr Zelensky in Downing Street amid fears the US President could rush Kyiv into a botched peace deal

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32 h. ago Allies discuss ‘positive progress’ to use frozen Russian assets in Ukraine talks

Sir Keir Starmer, Emmanuel Macron, Volodymyr Zelensky and Friedrich Merz met at No 10 on Monday.

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32 h. ago Ramp up pressure on Putin to end ‘barbaric war,’ say European leaders amid rift with Trump

Sir Keir Starmer hosted Volodymyr Zelensky, Friedrich Merz and Emmanuel Macron at Downing Street on Monday

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33 h. ago Ukraine has no right to renounce territory — Zelensky comments on US

Ukraine has no right to renounce territory — Zelensky comments on US-led peace efforts after talks with European leaders  The Kyiv Independent

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