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Trump slow-walks Ukraine military aid meant to contain Russia
The Trump administration is slow-walking $250 million in military assistance to Ukraine, annoying lawmakers and advocates who argue the funding is critical to keeping Russia at bay. U.S. President Donald Trump asked his national security team to review the funding program, known as the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, in order to ensure...
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[Ticker] Surge in measles puts lives at risks in Europe
Europe is witnessing a surge in measles, with more cases in the first half of 2019 than in all of 2018, according to the World Health Organisation. Some 90,000 cases and 37 deaths were reported in 48 countries in the region. Albania, the Czech Republic, Greece, and the UK lost their measles-free status. The worst affected was Ukraine, with more...
Relief and trepidation as Trump looks to rebrand the G7
BIARRITZ, France — Who needs golf when there’s even more money to be made playing global politics? Before Donald Trump’s first G7 summit in Sicily in 2017, leaders of the world’s other advanced democracies fretted that the combative American would dismantle the international order by snubbing them and even not showing up. Now,...
Macron’s G7 descends into summit of spin
BIARRITZ, France — It’s the seaside summit of seven truths. Gathered for their annual pow-wow in the French coastal city of Biarritz this weekend, leaders of the G7 club of rich democracies agreed that Russia should not be invited back into the fold. Or maybe they didn’t. The leaders also decided that their host, French President...
Donald Tusk: G7 summit may be last chance for unity
BIARRITZ, France — Leaders of the world’s richest and most powerful democracies are increasingly unable to find “common language” and are at risk of getting caught up in “senseless disputes among each other,” European Council President Donald Tusk warned Saturday before the start of a G7 summit. “This is another G7 summit which will be a...
5 storms (and a jungle fire) that could wreck Macron’s beachfront G7
BIARRITZ, France — French President Emmanuel Macron chose Biarritz, a luxurious seaside resort town with an iconic Art Deco casino, to host this year’s G7 leaders’ summit. And it’s not exactly hard to guess which high-rolling world leader’s peculiar tastes Macron had in mind when he chose this trendy spot on the Basque...
Debate: Macron giving EU-Russia relations a new dynamic?
French President Emmanuel Macron received Vladimir Putin at his summer residence on Monday. During the meeting he made the case for a new European security architecture into which Russia would be integrated. He also expressed his desire for a revival of the Normandy format after the elections in Ukraine. Commentators ask whether the meeting could...
Debate: Are Macron’s overtures to Putin a good idea?
French President Emmanuel Macron received Vladimir Putin at his summer residence on Monday. During the meeting he made the case for a new European security architecture to integrate Russia. He also expressed his desire for a revival of the Normandy format after the elections in Ukraine. Commentators ask whether the meeting could mark a turning...
[Ticker] Macron: no Russian return to G8 without Ukraine solution
French president Emmanuel Macron said on Wednesday that readmitting Russia into the Group of Seven (G7) powerful states without resolving the Ukraine crisis “would be signing off the weakness of the G7.” For Macron, this was an “essential precondition” since Russia was thrown out of the G8 after its invasion of Ukraine in...
Macron’s masterplan for Trump, the universe and everything
PARIS — Another G7 summit blown apart by Donald Trump? Not on Emmanuel Macron’s watch. Last year’s gathering of G7 leaders ended in chaos after Trump abruptly announced via Twitter that he would not support the just-agreed summit communiqué, apparently out of anger over comments made by the host, Canadian Prime Minister Justin...
