Author: Michael Birnbaum
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Trump administration says it will leave INF treaty if Russia doesn’t comply in 60 days
BRUSSELS – Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday that Rusia is violating a Cold War-era arms control agreement and that the United States would begin the process of leaving the accord in 60 days if Moscow doesn’t come into compliance. The ultimatum, issued at a meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels, amounts to a…
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As tensions with Trump deepen, Europe wonders if America is lost for good
BERLIN — Since Jan. 20, 2017, European leaders have managed U.S. relations with one eye on the clock, anxiously counting down the hours until President Trump’s term is up and hoping the core of the Western alliance isn’t too badly damaged in the meantime. But as Trump’s aggressive rhetoric toward America’s closest allies has evolved…
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McMaster says evidence of Russian meddling is ‘now really incontrovertible’
MUNICH – U.S. national security adviser H.R. McMaster acknowledged Saturday that evidence of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election was “incontrovertible” but said Moscow’s campaign to divide the West through subterfuge was failing. “It’s just not working,” he said. The comments, a day after the Justice Department indicted 13 Russians for interference in the…
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Russian warships skate close to British waters over Christmas holiday, UK navy says
BRUSSELS – British ships and a helicopter were dispatched over the Christmas holiday weekend to track an “upsurge” of Russian naval vessels passing near British waters, the British Navy said Tuesday, as British and NATO leaders have warned of Russian naval activity at levels unseen since the Cold War. At least four Russian ships, including…
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Negotiations begin over British split from European Union
BRUSSELS — Britain and the European Union opened difficult negotiations Monday that will end the country’s 43-year membership in the economic and political alliance — even as Britain remained sharply split over what to seek in the unprecedented divorce. The first formal negotiations took place just short of a year after British voters narrowly decided…
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Trump’s tangle with Europe leads the continent to find partners elsewhere
BRUSSELS — A day after President Trump pulled out of a key climate agreement, declaring he was fighting for “Pittsburgh, not Paris,” an international realignment was already taking shape on Friday, as European and Chinese officials signed a raft of agreements to bind themselves tightly together. The pullout left the United States as a global…