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EUROPEAN COUNCIL president Donald Tusk insisted yesterday that US Vice-President Mike Pence’s comments have reassured EU officials about the Trump administration’s stance toward the bloc.
Mr Tusk said that he and Mr Pence had held “open and frank talks” — which, in diplomacy-speak, usually signifies an unholy row — aimed in part at allaying concerns about President Donald Trump’s support for the EU and European security through Nato.
“I heard words which are promising for the future, words which explain a lot about the new approach in Washington,” he said.
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz is pouring €11.5bn into the Kiev swamp, blocking Trump’s peace plan, and pushing Nato right up to Russia’s borders – no matter if it costs hundreds of thousands of lives, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN
In a speech to the 12th Xiangshan Forum in Beijing, SEVIM DAGDELEN warns of a growing historical revisionism to whitewash Germany and Japan’s role in WWII as part of a return to a cold war strategy from the West — but multipolarity will win out
