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Secretary Rubio’s Call with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Sybiha
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Office of the SpokespersonFebruary 13, 2025
The below is attributable to Spokesperson Tammy Bruce:
Secretary of State Marco Rubio spoke with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha today. They discussed the need for bold diplomacy to…
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Europe’s Moment of Truth on Defending Ukraine—and the Continent
Paul B. Stares is the General John W. Vessey senior fellow for conflict prevention at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he directs the Center on Preventive Action. Michael O’Hanlon holds the Phil H. Knight chair in defense and…
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US views of Ukraine aid, NATO and European defense in 2025
U.S. and NATO flags wave in Washington, D.C., on July 8, 2024, ahead of that year’s NATO summit. (Celal Gunes/Anadolu via Getty Images) Americans remain largely divided along partisan lines over U.S. aid to Ukraine, nearly three years after…
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Ukraine-Russia Peace: Neutrality for Territory
It was exactly eight years ago when Ukrainian political elites faced a similar question to today: What to do if the United States elected a president who wants a deal with Russia on Ukraine?
At the time, I proposed ideas including a…
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Maps: Ukraine’s Borders Pre-2014 Invasion to Now
The question of where Ukraine’s borders with Russia should be drawn in any peace negotiations came into sharp focus this week after Pete Hegseth, the U.S. defense secretary, said that it was “unrealistic” for Ukraine to try to regain all of…
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EU-US trade: how tariffs could impact Europe | Topics
What Parliament is calling for
Shortly after Trump’s re-election in November 2024, MEPs already debated what this would mean for EU-US relations.
In the week Trump was inaugurated as US president, leading MEPs called for continued transatlantic…
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US says European security no longer its primary focus – the shift has been years in the making
European defence ministers left their meeting in Brussels on February 12 in shock after the new US secretary of defence, Pete Hegseth, told them they could no longer rely on the US to guarantee their security.
Hegseth said he was there…
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Amid Russia war, Ukraine building US$1.4 billion holiday resort in Carpathian Mountains
Ukraine might be fending off a full-scale Russian invasion but a brand new holiday resort is taking shape in the western Carpathian Mountains.
It will offer 25 hotels with more than 5,000 rooms, in a ski area kitted out with lifts and a range of…
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Why Eastern European countries are boycotting supermarkets
A wave of discontent over rising supermarket prices has spread through the Balkans and beyond in the past weeks, intensifying pressure on governments to defend consumers.
At the latest meeting of EU agriculture ministers in Brussels on 27…
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