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9 Trump moments over lunch with Theresa May
ANKARA — Fresh from public displays of affection at their joint press conference early Friday afternoon, Donald Trump and Theresa May retired to the White House state banqueting room for lunch. Then it got really interesting. British Prime Minister Theresa May with U.S. President Donald Trump walk along The Colonnade at The White...
POLITICO Brussels Playbook Plus: EU fights fake news machine — Culture wars — Separated at birth
EU FIGHTS FAKE NEWS MACHINE FROM SHADOWS: NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg told Playbook he does not believe in “fighting propaganda with propaganda.†The EU also stays out of the propaganda game (mostly) but has created a team called “East StratCom†in the External Action Service to...
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[Ticker] Trump to ‘consider’ US sanctions on Russia
US president Donald Trump has put the future of sanctions on Russia “under consideration” ahead of his phone call with Russian president Vladimir Putin on Saturday, Trump’s aide, Kellyanne Conway, told US broadcaster Fox News on Friday. Trump will also speak with the French and German leaders the same day, in his first foray...
German foreign minister to meet team Trump
Sigmar Gabriel, who will take over as German foreign minister Friday afternoon, will travel to the U.S. to meet the country’s Vice President Mike Pence and Secretary of State Rex Tillerson next week, local media reported Friday. Gabriel will also meet United Nations officials in New York during his visit, Handelsblatt wrote, citing...
Putin, Trump to speak Saturday: Kremlin
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump are scheduled to speak by phone Saturday, the Kremlin said Friday, Reuters reported. The planned phone call will be the first conversation between the two since Trump took office January 20. The Kremlin did not outline what the presidents will discuss during their...
EU fights Russian fake news machine from the shadows
NATO’s secretary-general Jens Stoltenberg told Playbook that he does not believed in “fighting propaganda with propaganda.” The EU also stays out of the propaganda game (mostly) but has created a team “East StratCom” in its External Action Service to catalogue and expose disinformation it says comes from the Russian state. So far it claims...
In the Baltics, waiting for history to start up again
VILNIUS, Lithuania — A large plaque located in a central square in Lithuania’s capital city enshrines a phrase uttered by U.S. President George W. Bush during a visit in 2002: “Anyone who would choose Lithuania as an enemy has also made an enemy of the United States of America.†It’s a...
Theresa May seeks price of Trump friendship
LONDON — Theresa May knows what she wants from Donald Trump, but doesn’t yet know the price. The U.K. prime minister arrives in the United States Thursday vowing to reboot the special relationship with the new administration and eager to start work on a U.S.-U.K. trade deal. But even before she had landed, costs were...
[Ticker] EU upholds sanctions on Russian missile-maker
The EU’s top court rejected a bid by Russian arms maker Almaz-Antey to lift sanctions imposed in connection with the conflict in eastern Ukraine. Almaz-Antey, the makers of Buk missiles, one of which brought down Malaysian Airlines’ flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine in 2014, was targeted by EU sanctions for undermining the territorial...
Kosovo, Serb dispute threatens to derail Balkan peace
MITROVICA, Kosovo — The European Union is stepping in between squabbling Kosovar Albanians and Serbs, fearing that a new dispute could undo nearly two decades of efforts to stabilize the southern Balkans. EU Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini this week will try to get leaders of Serbia and Kosovo to defuse a dispute over a...
