European capitals have commented on the newly reached framework trade agreement between the European Union and the United States, which sets the tariff level on European imports to the US at 15%. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz gave a positive assessment of the agreement, emphasizing that it helped avoid a large-scale…

Moldova is all but landlocked, and the only port on its 400m-long coastline, Giurgiulești, works in close cooperation with Ukraine. Even if the Kremlin succeeds in toppling Moldova’s pro-Western government in parliamentary elections in September, it is hard to imagine the authorities in Kyiv tolerating a Russian military reinforcement of a neighbouring…

European Council President António Costa has called on China to use its influence over Russia to compel it to respect the UN Charter and end its full-scale war against Ukraine. His remarks come amid growing Western concerns about China’s ongoing exports of dual-use goods that could be employed in Russia’s…

Security fears over rise in French and Italian holiday visas despite war in Ukraine and Moscow sanctions. Security fears over rise in French and Italian holiday visas despite war in Ukraine and Moscow sanctions. Russian tourists are returning to Europe in growing numbers, despite the war in Ukraine, with France,…

Owens has claimed that France’s first lady, Brigitte Macron, is a man, and that French president is controlled by CIA. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, and his wife, Brigitte Macron, are suing the rightwing commentator Candace Owens for defamation. In a suit filed on Wednesday in Delaware against Owens and…