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Rutte even called Trump the “daddy” for intervening in the fighting between Israel and Iran. Other leaders also laid it on the U.S. president. Rutte even called Trump the “daddy” for intervening in the fighting between Israel and Iran. | EPA/SEM VAN DER WAL “This is the success of President Donald Trump,” Poland’s pro-Trump President Andrzej Duda told POLITICO. “He was the one who demanded that NATO nations raise their defense spending.” As a result, during the leaders’ roundtable, which was kept to a tight two-and-a-half hours, Trump struck an unexpectedly measured tone, according to someone inside the room, who…
Weber also lambasted the greenwashing bill — supported by centrist and left-leaning groups— that is at the heart of the political crisis. “The fact that businesses will in future have to have ecological advertising approved before it is used is grotesque bureaucratic madness, and I will not support it,” he said. Two days before the Commission said it was killing the bill, known as the Green Claims Directive, the EPP sent a letter to the Commission saying it wanted the law dead. That timing fed a growing sense among the center-left bloc that the EPP — the biggest group in…
By Gavin Blackburn with AP Published on 25/06/2025 – 19:03 GMT+2Germany’s top prosecutor submitted a new arrest warrant on Wednesday based on terrorism allegations for a Syrian man who stabbed and critically injured four men outside a restaurant in the western city of Bielefeld last month.The federal prosecutor’s office said in a statement that the accused, who has only been identified as Mahmoud M. in line with German privacy rules, “is urgently suspected of membership of a foreign terrorist organisation, attempted murder and dangerous bodily harm.”The defendant allegedly attacked several people with a knife outside a restaurant in downtown Bielefeld on 18 May.Four men…
Frustrations about Trump’s stance on trade toward Europe still boiled over at times, with French President Emmanuel Macron remarking on the incongruity of the U.S. demanding that allies spend more on defense while squeezing their economies with tariffs. Similarly, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz vented about trade talks between Washington and Brussels, stating that they’re “too complicated.” But those notes of discord were largely drowned out by the striking harmony of this streamlined summit. To get Trump to learn to love NATO, allies had to make some sacrifices. The summit’s final communiqué was just five paragraphs, down from 38 last year.…
By Euronews with EBU Published on 25/06/2025 – 17:41 GMT+2Former Bulgarian Prime Minister Kiril Petkov resigned as an MP and party co-chair of “We Continue the Change” on Wednesday, a decision that was made after a corruption probe began against party mayors in Sofia.Petkov however says he will stay in the party.”I am personally taking political responsibility and resigning as co-chair of ‘We Continue the Change’. I am also resigning as an MP from ‘We Continue the Change’,” Petkov said during a press conference. Petkov’s reaction comes after a recording was sent to the media earlier on Wednesday, featuring a conversation between the…
Against the backdrop of Russia’s grinding war in Ukraine, increasing instability in the Middle East and continuing doubts over U.S. commitment to transatlantic security, leaders will discuss how spending commitments will translate into boosting the bloc’s military capabilities and autonomy on the world stage. Also on the agenda: deepening the single market to shore up the bloc’s competitiveness; the question of enlargement and accession for Ukraine and Moldova. POLITICO’s reporters are on site to bring you the news from the summit, as it happens.
Published on 25/06/2025 – 16:27 GMT+2•Updated 18:02Mark Rutte found himself in the spotlight as the two-day summit in the Hague drew to a close as a series of exchanges of diplomatic niceties between the NATO secretary general and Donald Trump went viral. During a joint press appearance in The Hague on Wednesday, Dutchman Rutte reacted to a bombastic statement on Iran and Israel from the US president, referring to his role as that of a “daddy’ to Israel and Iran in the dispute during a press conference. “They fought like hell, and then they said let’s stop,” Trump said of Israel and Iran.…
Content warning: This article contains language that some may find offensive.“Language!”We’ve all heard that exclamation shouted by an exasperated parent when a child is being foul-mouthed.But when it comes to expletives uttered by politicians, who are supposed to mind their usage of profanity and set a good example, what hope do parents or any other role models have? Especially when that locution is the controversial, flexible and ubiquitous four-letter word ‘fuck’. The range-covering swear word was uttered by Donald Trump on Tuesday as he lashed out at both Israel and Iran, accusing both countries of violating a ceasefire he tried to broker. Speaking to…
There will not be a private meeting between the president and king over the summer due to their conflicting schedules, despite the king proposing one in his initial invitation. A Buckingham Palace aide told the BBC: “His Majesty has known President Trump for many years and looks forward to hosting him and the First Lady later this year.” Speaking in the House of Commons on Wednesday, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner said the government was “really pleased the U.S. president is coming for a second state visit.” Trump previously made a state visit during his first term in 2019 and…
Published on 25/06/2025 – 16:42 GMT+2The US president has touted the possibility that Russian President Vladimir Putin may invade other countries following the full-scale invasion of Ukraine during a press conference at the NATO summit in the Hague. Trump was asked whether he considered Putin as an enemy and if he believed Putin had territorial ambitions beyond Ukraine. “It’s possible”, Donald Trump replied. “I consider him [Putin] a person who I think is misguided,” he said. Trump also said Putin called him to offer help in settling the recent Middle East conflict and to act as an interlocutor between the US, Israel and Iran. “He called…