64 h. ago Outrage grows over Marine Le Pen's blocked presidential run: Trump and European allies offer support as 'tyrannical judges' are accused of 'depriving millions of people of their representation'

Le Pen has pledged to fight the court-imposed prohibition that appeared to exclude her goal of seeking and potentially winning the French presidency in 2027.

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3 d. ago US will NOT help Europe if Russia attacks, leaked Pentagon document reveals

The admission echoes recent calls from the Trump administration for European allies to do more to invest in their own defence and reduce reliance on America.

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9 d. ago Trump cabinet members tear into ‘pathetic’ European allies for ‘free

The messages have come to light in an extraordinary security breach after a journalist was added to a high-level messaging group by mistake

Politics

9 d. ago In defiance of Donald Trump, is a European ‘security council’ emerging? | Paul Taylor

With the US threatening unilateral withdrawal, even from the top Nato military post, five European nations must fill the vacuumIn the face of Vladimir Putin’s aggression against Ukraine and Donald Trump’s destabilisation of the Atlantic alliance, an embryonic European security council is taking shape on the hoof. Whether it will prove strong enough to protect Europe’s liberal democracies and deter Russia without US military support may be tested all too soon.Nato was created under US leadership to keep the Soviet Union at bay while suppressing centuries-old rivalries among European powers. The alliance stayed united through the cold war and attracted new central European members after communist rule collapsed. But the spectre of US disengagement now threatens to leave Europe without its nuclear-armed protector.Paul Taylor is a senior visiting fellow at the European Policy Centre Continue reading...

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9 d. ago Donald Trump's top team rips into America's European allies as bombshell messages exposed

Donald Trump's top national security officials texted war plans for upcoming military strikes in Yemen to a group chat - but they were unaware a journalist was in the group

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1 week ago America's European allies are trying to pry their unspent money back from USAID

Three European allies have been pressing the Trump administration to get back money they sent to the United States to help low-income countries

Economics

2 w. ago Canada PM Carney visits France and UK as Trump trade war deepens

Carney aims to bolster European alliances in wake of US president’s attacks on Canada’s sovereigntyMark Carney, the new Canadian prime minister, has arrived in Paris on his first stop of a visit to France and the UK as he seeks to bolster European alliances to deal with Donald Trump’s attacks on Canada’s sovereignty and economy.Carney is deliberately making his first foreign trip to the capital cities of the two countries that shaped Canada’s early existence. At his swearing-in ceremony on Friday, Carney noted the country was built on the bedrock of three peoples: Indigenous, French and British. He said Canada was fundamentally different from the US and would “never, ever, in any way shape or form, be part of the United States”. Continue reading...

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3 w. ago Trump’s 25% tariffs on steel and aluminum begin, angering European allies: Live updates

President’s action to protect American metals producers steps up campaign to reorder global trade

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