PARIS — French President Emmanuel Macron and his American counterpart Donald Trump spoke on the phone minutes before Macron greeted European dignitaries who had gathered to discuss security in Paris. The French president’s office said the “frank conversation” lasted 20 minutes. The call came as European leaders are scrambling to come up with a unified…
President Donald Trump’s claim that US ownership and control of Greenland is “an absolute necessity” has underlined the strategic importance of the world’s largest island in terms of American missile defences and anti-submarine operations. While analysts doubt the US will buy Greenland – both Denmark and the island’s government have declared it is “not for…
On substance, the EU had little to offer Kyiv. With Hungary objecting, the bloc failed to unblock frozen Russian assets as loans for Ukraine. Zelenskyy also met with Robert Fico, the prime minister of Slovakia, another increasingly pro-Russia country like Hungary. His Brussels tour began in the European Council. Despite a worsening situation on the…