US President Donald Trump is delusional if he thinks that his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin is serious about wanting to end the war in Ukraine any time soon, Melinda Haring, a senior analyst at the Atlantic Council’s Eurasia Center, told FRANCE 24.

An oppressive, tenuous peace would not be the product of clever diplomacy and well-crafted “guarantees.” It would instead be a product of Ukrainian desperation and Western betrayal: one for which we will pay down the road.

Call it “mutual” and suddenly people get it.

The EU gets a lot of criticism, sometimes justified, but Lavrov's evident frustration is clear evidence that the EU is doing something right with its support for Ukraine. Stay strong EU 🇪🇺🇺🇦

Every word from Trump's mouth, every scheme his regime proposes, is a reminder of the urgent need for Europe to strengthen our collective military capability so that we no longer have to rely on the US for defence. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Americans lined the bridge to Mar-a-Lago waving Ukrainian flags in a show of support for Ukraine and President Zelensky, who is heading there for talks with Trump.

Bulgaria prepares to join eurozone amid fears of Russian-backed disinformation

"Future members should be required to waive their right of veto until key institutional reforms — such as the introduction of qualified majority voting in most policy areas — have been implemented" A positive step towards removing the national veto 👏👏 www.politico.eu/article/new-...

People often ask if people like Farage and Trump are being bribed or blackmailed to act as they do. But the fact is that people like Farage and Trump act with such malevolence, and ally themselves with autocrats and dictators, because that is who they are. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

“The small seeds of large issues find space to grow and flourish wherever prejudice, discrimination, victimisation and persecution are permitted to go unchallenged. They need rooting out.” The teacher who tried to stop Farage being made a prefect speaks out. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

“Farage had an uneasy end to the year” Where “uneasy” = exposed as racist with corrupt/traitorous links to Russia and useless at running councils. But no worries. They’ll just join forces with the failed Tories to “end the left wing tyranny.” They can all go to hell. (Sunday Times)

this is the simple answer to people who keep saying NATO expansion matters. Sure, it matters because it presented an obstacle to Russian imperial ambitions. Putin didn't invade because he hated NATO expansion, he hated NATO expansion because he wanted to invade

Everyone you see here risks arrest for participating in this peaceful march. Under a new Georgian Dream law adopted on Dec 12, citizens must notify police 5 days in advance of any protest—even on a sidewalk. Police then have 3 days to respond and may dictate a different place, route, or time. 1/n

Day 395 of #GeorgiaProtests And to think that just two years ago, the deeply rooted common assumption was that “Georgian’s can’t protest without a leader, get tired if they don’t achieve their objectives within a few days and go home.” 1/2

🇺🇦🇪🇺 Ukraine considers the issues of language and religion within the framework of the peace plan through the prism of EU laws and regulations, — Zelensky 💬 We are a future member of the EU. This is the format in which we discuss everything.

“None of us can guess how the Trump assault on the BBC will play out, because he wields unprecedented power, unchecked by personal dignity or decency.” No. We can’t. But we can condemn forever the repulsive British politicians and media gobshites who would side with him instead of us.

Last night and this morning Russia once again launched a missile and drone attack on Ukraine's capital Kyiv, deliberately targeting apartment blocks, bus stops, shops and other clearly civilian infrastructure. This is why we say that #RussiaIsATerroristState Europe must #StandWithUkraine

🔴 The aftermath of the Russian attack on an apartment building in Kyiv. Russian forces launched about 500 drones and 40 missiles in the attack, according to President Zelenskyy. 📹: Radio Svoboda

“The government needs to do whatever it can to build the closest possible positive working relationship with Europe economically and politically as well … up to and including the customs union,” Correct, Paul Nowak, though why not beyond the Customs Union! www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

The Soviet Union was a disastrous experiment that caused millions of needless deaths. We must ensure that nothing similar ever happens again as authoritarian leaders grow more unhinged and take over traditionally democratic countries

"41 steps toward Russia in one year. Tortured protesters. Political prisoners. Attacks on media. How Georgian Dream halted EU integration, weakened democracy, and isolated Georgia from its partners." — @transparencyge.bsky.social Read the full analysis: transparency.ge/en/blog/41-s...

Merry Christmas from European Movement UK! 🎄 May this festive season remind us that cooperation brings us further than isolation: Christmas is better when we’re together, just like Europe.

A carol for peace. Together with the Embassies of Germany, the United Kingdom, and France, representatives of the Ministry of Culture, and Ukrainian artists from the National House of Music and Open Opera Ukraine, performed Shchedryk (Carol of the Bells) in the heart of Kyiv❤️

Between the new 🇺🇸threat to forcibly annex Greenland and sanctions on EU officials over digital laws, it's clear there is no 'Christmas truce' in the 🇺🇸 rhetorical war on 🇪🇺. The Trump administration is escalating. Happy holidays. Let's all ask Santa for EU leaders who will defend this continent.

Well my knee-jerk reaction is ban Musk and Zuckerberg from the EU and UK. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Letter to the FT that stingingly sums up Brexit and the shit creek we now find ourselves in. A terrible idea (naive, prejudiced and uninformed) that has deeply divided us and left us poorer and less secure… but unwilling to face up to the damage we’ve done to ourselves. While the EU moves on.

The European Commission, along with the French and German governments, and MEPs, have condemned the Trump administration's unjust sanctions on anti-hate campaigners and former European Commissioner Thierry Breton. Such words are welcome, but will not be enough. ec.europa.eu/commission/p...

We condemn the scandalous US visa ban on former EU Commisioner Breton and digital activists. Protecting democracy isn’t censorship. ✋🏼 Disinformation isn’t free speech. Europe won’t take lessons from those undermining democracy and free speech. Here in Europe we set our own laws. 🇪🇺✊🏼

12/In the US, it is unclear what national interest is being served by sanctioning EU officials. Increasingly, it looks like hyper elites (think Big Tech) is driving the bus. The result: an acceleration in the breakdown of transatlantic relations. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

1/Quick thoughts of implications of US National Security Strategy for Europe -- weaponized interdependence meets nationalist international. The US will use its tools (economic, technology, and financial dominance) to press for far right agenda. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...

More than half of uk exporters report that the Brexit deal is hindering trade, & the number of firms reporting an ongoing hit from the deal is increasing. Brexit is an ongoing disaster for growth & the economy. We need to turn Johnson’s Titanic disaster around. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This year we backed our arguments with hard evidence and public pressure, from our Business Impact Report and the case for Erasmus+, to One Earth. One Team., defending the ECHR with 55,000+ signatures handed into Downing Street, and demanding action on the touring crisis alongside Miriam Margolyes.

Another one to file under "This is NOT normal behaviour by a supposed democracy and ally". This isn't about censorship, if it was the US would be sanctioning Russian and Chinese government figures who really are suppressing free speech. www.bbc.com/news/article... (1/2)

The State department continues to use false allegations of "censorship" to censor people, or in this case sanction them www.nytimes.com/2025/12/23/t...

American tech companies are not truly concerned about censorship, as they happily operate in countries with strict regulations. You never hear the Trump administration complain about Saudi Arabia, Russia, or China. This is about bullying Europe, nothing more

Another example of how the Trump regime says it wants a strong Europe, but at every step seeks to weaken Europe. And meanwhile not a peep from the Trump regime about the Putin regime banning almost all social media. The USA is no longer an ally in any meaningful sense.

The Trump admin sanctions several European officials today after Elon Musk was fined for several violations of their Digital Services Act.

📉 Russian Economy on the Brink: War Exhausts Budget and Reserves The primary driver of the current economic downturn is the combination of a sharp decline in energy export earnings and surging military expenditures. Read more 👀 theukrainianreview.info/russian-econ...

Please sir, my electoral system, he is very sick

Reposting my @politico.eu piece from October, in light of Jeff Landry's appointment as special envoy, on how the Greenland risk is underpriced and could become the biggest risk to transatlantic relations www.politico.eu/article/gree...

Campaigning to rejoin the EU cannot be just about restoring lost opportunities for UK citizens, or of strengthening the UK economy. It is at its core about uniting with our neighbours to defend our shared values of democracy, human rights, and the rule of law. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

We continue to stand in solidarity with Denmark and Greenland. Greenland is an autonomous territory in the Kingdom of Denmark. Any changes to that status are for Greenlanders and Danes alone to decide. (1/2)

The EU and NATO would have to be complete idiots to believe any pledge by the Russian dictatorship not to attack. We've all seem Russia make and break such pledges many times before. It's just a shallow attempt to persuade Europe to abandon democratic Ukraine. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

⚡️ “This is a war crime,” Lithuania says as Russia abducts civilians from Ukraine’s Sumy region. More than 50 mostly elderly residents were forcibly taken to Russia, with Vilnius demanding their immediate release. 🔗 united24media.com/latest-news/...

🔥 THIS IS HUGE! Horizon is the world’s science programme, hosted by the EU. It just got bigger. Other non-European countries associated to the programme (ie paying in) include Korea, New Zealand, Canada.

"Given Trump’s erratic behaviour... the time is rapidly approaching when Britain will have to choose. Forget 'Bridge Across The Atlantic' fantasies: on trade, on defence, and in terms of our identity, we are Europeans." ~AA www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Nope. Same old wishful thinking from UK politicians on EU links, taking the trade and leave the rest. Not available. Money, people, alignment, and making a positive case in public in Brussels all required. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Streeting seems to have ended up, 10+ years later, at exactly the same misunderstanding as Cameron's pre-referendum 'renegotiation'. Tedious and depressing. (Extract is from my Blogpost of February 2017: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2017/02/even...)

Only Russia and its supporters can claim that Western sanctions strengthen Russia and hurt the West, while simultaneously asking the West to remove them. They are the biggest idiots and hypocrites out there

The best gift for our jobless young is a return to Europe, writes William Keegan https://bit.ly/4axZowF