Brussels 12.08.2025 Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban did not join the statement of the leaders of the European Union (EU) on the Ukrainian settlement. He made this announcement on his page on the social network X, formally Twitter. The statement, published on the website of the European Commission, as well as the social page of…
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EU welcomes U.S. humanitarian efforts
Brussels 10.08.2025 “We welcome President Trump’s work to stop the killing in Ukraine, end the Russian Federation’s war of aggression, and achieve just and lasting peace and security for Ukraine” reads the press-release of the president of the European Commission Ursula von der Leyen. (Image above: Alaska map, USA.) We welcome President Trump’s efforts to…
EPP party appalled by 15% tariffs agreement
Brussels 28.07.2028 The EPP Group’s spokesman on international trade, Jörgen Warborn MEP, pushes back against US tariffs and doubles down on the EPP’s support for rules-based multilateral trade. “Imposing a 15 percent baseline tariff is a blatant breach of WTO principles and a serious blow to European industrial competitiveness,” said Warborn following today’s meeting of…
Scotland: Trump receives von der Leyen
Brussels 25.07.2025 The EU is hopeful to sign a trade deal with President Trump after the European Commission President, Ursula von der Leyen, announced that would meet him on Sunday, July 27, during his four-day trip to Scotland. Trump landed tonight before the opening of his new golf course in Aberdeenshire and was planning to…
NATO: Rutte visits Washington D.C.
Brussels 14.07.2025 Today NATO Chief Mark Rutte has visited Washington D.C. on Monday where he met the U.S. President Donald Trump, and will other high officials as Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth. 🚨 President Trump seals a blockbuster deal. NATO nations will buy American weapons, fully paid for by…
Azerbaijan-Russia relations crisis bursts
Porto, Portugal 30.06.2025 In an unprecedented action of protest Porto, Portugal 30.06.2025 Azerbaijan has canceled all cultural events planned by Russian state and private institutions. The decision has been taken in condemnation of the killings of Azerbaijani citizens during police raids in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg, the officials in Baku said. There are reports…
EU: Sanchez denounces “double standards”
Brussels 26.06.2025 Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said he would demand that the European Union (the EU) to suspend the Association agreement with Israel. He noted that the union “follows a double standard” by imposing sanctions against Russia and still cooperating with the Jewish state. “Europe, [following] a double standard, is not even capable of…
NATO: Rutte versus Sanchez
The Hague. 23.06.2025 “…We meet at a truly historic moment, with significant and growing challenges to our security. As the world becomes more dangerous, Allied leaders will take bold decisions to strengthen our collective defence, making NATO a stronger, a fairer and a more lethal Alliance” said the NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte, addressing journalists…
EU believes in diplomacy
Brussels 15.06.2026 A couple of hours before the hypersonic missile strike on Haifa, Israel, the EU top diplomat Kaja Kallas issued the following statement: “The European Union is following very closely the situation in the Middle East and expresses its deepest concern at the dangerous escalation that threatens to destabilise the Middle East following Israeli…
Patriarch Kirill isn’t scared by F-16
Brussels 14.06.2025 Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Rus’ said that he was not scared by the launch of an F-16 near his plane flying to Kaliningrad. Speaking at a meeting of the clergy of the Kaliningrad, he said that his plane was accompanied to the region by an F-16 fighter, and asked a rhetorical…