The rallies in Bratislava and five other cities are part of a wave of protests that was fuelled by Prime Minister Robert Fico’s trip to Moscow in December for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The new authorities in Damascus have made a push for harsh sanctions imposed by western countries on Assad’s government to be lifted, with limited success.
Nearing the 100-day mark of his administration, President Donald Trump is pushing Ukraine hard to accept the terms of a peace deal with Russia to end the three-year war by giving major concessions to Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Expressing confidence that “we’re going to get it…
Rutte was in Washington on Thursday for meetings with senior US officials, two months before he’s due to chair a summit of US President Donald Trump and his NATO counterparts in the Netherlands.
While supplies of liquefied natural gas from the US “remain of strategic importance for the European Union”, Ursula von der Leyen gave no indication that the EU executive planned to further ramp up imports, in a speech at a two-day summit on the future of energy security that…
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