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  Europe needs a plan for decoup­ling from Amer­ica Mar­tin Sandbu mar­tin.sandbu@ft.com Settings Print Share Listen When the US-Rus­sian “peace plan” for Ukraine was sprung on an unsus­pect­ing Europe two weeks ago, Ukrain­ian Pres­id­ent Volodymyr Zelenskyy warned his people in a speech: “Right now, Ukraine may find itself facing a very tough choice. Either the loss of our dig­nity or the risk of los­ing a key part­ner.” If any EU lead­ers were as plain­speak­ing as him, they might well have used the same words about their own coun­tries. For it is all of Europe, the EU and its mem­ber states who are facing the choice between being in con­trol of their own affairs, and their long-stand­ing part­ner­ship with the US. Three times Don­ald Trump has tried to bounce Ukraine into con­ced­ing to Rus­sian demands for the sake of a super­fi­cial and unjust peace. Three times the Europeans have scrambled to change the US pres­id­ent’s mind on something they rightly see as exist­en­tial. H...
  The EU should play its Rus­sian assets card There are ways to over­come a Bel­gian block and provide vital sup­port to Kyiv Settings Print Share Listen Don­ald Trump’s latest attempt to bull­doze Kyiv into an unfa­vour­able peace deal with Moscow has exposed, once again, Europe’s inab­il­ity to shape the course of events in Ukraine and assure its own secur­ity. Europeans are pay­ing the price for dec­ades of under-invest­ment in defence and for cling­ing on for too long to Amer­ica’s secur­ity umbrella. European cap­it­als have helped Ukraine to revise some of the most egre­giously pro-Krem­lin ele­ments of the US peace pro­posal. But Trump’s instincts are always to side with Rus­sia to seal a deal. Ukraine’s Pres­id­ent Volodymyr Zelenskyy is also at a moment of acute polit­ical dif­fi­culty. His power­ful chief of staff Andriy Yer­mak resigned on Fri­day after an anti-cor­rup­tion raid on his home as part of an invest­ig­a­tion into a scan­dal that has implic­ated two former mi...
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  Rise in cost of liv­ing over­shad­ows Thanks­giv­ing Amer­ic­ans hit by price increases believe Trump’s policies make their afford­ab­il­ity crisis worse SAM LEARNER AND OLIVER ROEDER NEW YORK Settings Print Share Listen Thanks­giv­ing last week kicked off the US hol­i­day spend­ing period but few are in the mood to splurge, as most Amer­ic­ans think Don­ald Trump is mak­ing a national afford­ab­il­ity crisis worse. About three-quar­ters of Amer­ic­ans view the eco­nomy as only fair or poor, accord­ing to research group Pew, and a major­ity say the pres­id­ent’s policies have heightened the prob­lem. Those who think the eco­nomy is poor cite rising prices as their top reason. Speak­ing at the tra­di­tional Thanks­giv­ing tur­key par­don­ing cere­mony at the White House, Trump, whose over­all approval rat­ing is just 41 per cent accord­ing to a Sil­ver Bul­letin polling aver­age, said: “It’s a great time of the year, our coun­try is doing really well eco­nom­ic­ally, like we’ve ne...
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  La (improbable) integración política de la UE es vital El balance de la situación mundial es amargo: China busca un orden mundial chinocéntrico, Estados Unidos está liquidando su democracia, los regímenes autoritarios avanzan y la sociedad civil no parece oponer mucha resistencia. Ante este desolador panorama, Europa debe pensar en volar sola y más unida. Es cuestión de supervivencia MIKEL JASO La invasión rusa de Ucrania  ha provocado, entre otras cosas, una percepción tardía entre la población europea de la profunda transformación que se está produciendo en la situación mundial. No obstante, ese cambio llevaba ya tiempo gestándose a consecuencia del declive de Estados Unidos, la superpotencia del siglo XX. Una señal de alarma y... Suscríbete para seguir leyendo Lee sin límites
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  China's military firms struggle as corruption purge bites, report says December 1, 2025 11:14 AM GMT+11 Updated 54 mins ago Item 1 of 4 A member of the People's Liberation Army stands as the strategic strike group displays YJ-21 missiles during a military parade to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two, in Beijing, China, September 3, 2025. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang/File Photo [1/4] A member of the People's Liberation Army stands as the strategic strike group displays YJ-21 missiles during a military parade to mark the 80th anniversary of the end of World War Two, in Beijing,...  Purchase Licensing  Rights Read more HONG KONG, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Revenues at China's giant military firms fell last year as corruption purges slowed arms contracts and procurement, according to a study released on Monday by a leading conflict think tank. The Chinese declines contrast with strong revenue growth globally for big arms and military-services companies, fuelled by wars ...
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  Taiwan airline seeks role in 'whole of society' defence with surveillance flights to counter China December 1, 2025 11:14 AM GMT+11 Updated 28 mins ago Item 1 of 5 An APEX aircraft equipped with a synthetic aperture radar made by U.S. company IMSAR and short-wave infrared sensors from Teledyne FLIR prepares to take off in Taitung, Taiwan, October 13, 2025. REUTERS/Ann Wang [1/5] An APEX aircraft equipped with a synthetic aperture radar made by U.S. company IMSAR and short-wave infrared sensors from Teledyne FLIR prepares to take off in Taitung, Taiwan, October 13, 2025....  Purchase Licensing  Rights Read more TAITUNG, Taiwan, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Flying over the blue waters off Taiwan's east coast, a light aircraft equipped with a powerful U.S.-made radar slung under its belly tracks Chinese warships, collecting data its operator is keen to provide to Taipei's security forces. Small Taiwanese operator Apex Aviation, better known for pilot training and charter flights, i...
  Wall St Week Ahead: Investors on watch for AI, economic updates as US stocks steady NEW YORK, Nov 28 (Reuters) - Investors will look in the coming week for signals about profitability for artificial intelligence companies, as well as the broader economy's health, to steady the U.S. equity market. Stocks rebounded this week from their biggest pullback since April, helped by a firming conviction that the U.S. Federal Reserve will cut interest rates in December. But some of the market's heavyweight shares remained volatile. Big moves in Nvidia  (NVDA.O) and Alphabet  (GOOGL.O) , for instance, were driven by developments in AI. Get a daily digest of breaking business news straight to your inbox with the Reuters Business newsletter. Sign up  here. Equities are poised to maintain this sensitivity, investors said, after concerns about overheated valuations took some of the steam out of a trade that has propelled markets higher this year. "The narrative surrounding the pro...