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POLITICO Pro Morning Energy and Climate, presented by FuelsEurope: COP25 — Chatting with EIB’s Hoyer — Fiji warning
Dec10

POLITICO Pro Morning Energy and Climate, presented by FuelsEurope: COP25 — Chatting with EIB’s Hoyer — Fiji warning

View in your browser or listen to audio By ANCA GURZU With Kalina Oroschakoff, Paola Tamma, Hanne Cokelaere, Joshua Posaner, Zack Colman and Laura Kayali SNEAK PEEK — Frans Timmermans arrives at the COP25 in Madrid, and underlines EU efforts to get major emitters on board, including through a carbon border tax if necessary. — Kalina caught up...

Three red lines for Zelensky | Novoye Vremya – Ukraine
Dec10

Three red lines for Zelensky | Novoye Vremya – Ukraine

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[Ticker] Russia and Ukraine agree ceasefire by new year
Dec10

[Ticker] Russia and Ukraine agree ceasefire by new year

Russian president Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky agreed to implement a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine by the end of the year, at their meeting on Monday in Paris hosted by France and Germany. They also agreed to implement an “all-for-all” prisoner exchange by the new year. The meeting’s aim was to revive...

Normandy talks land in Paris but fail to deliver peace in Ukraine
Dec10

Normandy talks land in Paris but fail to deliver peace in Ukraine

PARIS — In hindsight, maybe it was a bad idea to name peace talks after Normandy, a region known for blood-soaked World War II battles in which tens of thousands of soldiers died. The leaders of France, Germany, Russia and Ukraine met in Paris Monday in the so-called Normandy Format aimed at ending the armed conflict in eastern Ukraine — the...

Borrell urges EU to be foreign policy ‘player, not the playground’
Dec09

Borrell urges EU to be foreign policy ‘player, not the playground’

The EU’s new top diplomat, Josep Borrell, has urged the bloc to step up and be a real geopolitical player or risk Europe becoming just a playground for other big powers. Ahead of chairing his first meeting of EU foreign ministers Monday, the bloc’s High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy wrote a three-page letter...

Guns blaze in Ukraine as leaders meet in Paris
Dec09

Guns blaze in Ukraine as leaders meet in Paris

Hundreds of explosions and bursts of small arms fire were reported on the contact line in east Ukraine, as France prepares to host the first peace summit on the war in three years. …read more Source::...

Epic Sunday: Trump goes all-in on the tweets
Dec09

Epic Sunday: Trump goes all-in on the tweets

U.S. President Donald Trump had a quiet Sunday schedule, with just one afternoon event in the Blue Room. But by nighttime, he had fired off 99 tweets and retweets, going for the usual suspects — Democratic rivals, the impeachment inquiry and allegations of fake news by the mainstream media. Trump’s Twitter barrage comes the day before House...

NATO chief says Trump remains committed to alliance
Dec08

NATO chief says Trump remains committed to alliance

Jens Stoltenberg, secretary-general of NATO, said Sunday that he believes U.S. President Donald Trump remains committed to the 70-year-old military alliance. Speaking on “Fareed Zakaria GPS” in the aftermath of a NATO summit in London, Stoltenberg said,c for several reasons. First of all, that is something the president has expressed, meeting the...

Pelosi reveals plan to proceed with articles of impeachment against Trump
Dec05

Pelosi reveals plan to proceed with articles of impeachment against Trump

Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced Thursday that she has asked key chairmen to draft articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, a historic step that signals the House is increasingly likely to vote to impeach Trump before the end of this year. “Sadly, but with confidence and humility, with allegiance to our founders, and a heart full of...

Donald Trump, you’re no Bill Clinton
Dec05

Donald Trump, you’re no Bill Clinton

Altitude is a column by POLITICO founding editor John Harris, offering weekly perspective on politics in a moment of radical disruption. One problem for President Donald Trump, The New York Times said a couple months ago, is that he is not enough like Bill Clinton, who “faced impeachment with discipline.” The other day, however, The Washington...