Germans Reach Deal to Spend Big on Defense, Climate and More
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Germans Reach Deal to Spend Big on Defense, Climate and More

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Friedrich Merz, the likely next chancellor of Germany, announced on Friday that he had secured the votes to allow for extensive new government spending, including for defense, clearing the way for a stunning turnabout in German strategic and fiscal policy before he even…

Merz Challenges Germans to Make a Bold Strategic Shift. Will They Do It?
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Merz Challenges Germans to Make a Bold Strategic Shift. Will They Do It?

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Germany’s centrist politicians are losing votes to the far right and the far left. They are losing faith in America, their longtime friend and protector. And they are rapidly losing what could be their best chance to address both those problems at once….

Europe Expected a Transactional Trump. It Got Something Else.
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Europe Expected a Transactional Trump. It Got Something Else.

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump is no fan of the European Union. He has repeatedly claimed that the bloc was created to “screw” America, has pledged to slap big tariffs on its cars, and this week enacted global steel and aluminum levies that are expected to…

Trump’s Big Bet: Americans Will Tolerate Economic Downturn to Restore Manufacturing
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Trump’s Big Bet: Americans Will Tolerate Economic Downturn to Restore Manufacturing

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines President Trump’s simultaneous trade wars with Canada, Mexico, China and the European Union amount to a huge economic and political gamble: that Americans will endure months or years of economic pain in return for the distant hope of re-industrializing the American heartland. It…

Europe Weighs Peacekeeping Role in Ukraine Amid Trump’s Embrace of Russia
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Europe Weighs Peacekeeping Role in Ukraine Amid Trump’s Embrace of Russia

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines With anger in Europe mounting over President Trump’s perceived abandonment of the continent, President Emmanuel Macron of France gathered the chiefs of staff of more than 30 armed forces on Tuesday to review the formation of a multinational peacekeeping force to monitor any…

Romania Bars Ultranationalist Candidate From Presidential Race
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Romania Bars Ultranationalist Candidate From Presidential Race

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines Calin Georgescu, an ultranationalist candidate who won the first round of Romania’s abruptly aborted presidential election last year, has been barred from competing in a do-over vote scheduled for May, sparking a small but violent protest by his supporters in Bucharest, the Romanian…

Opinion | What Europe Fears Most About a Global Trade War
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Opinion | What Europe Fears Most About a Global Trade War

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines For decades, the rest of the world, especially China and countries in Europe, have produced much more than they have consumed, selling goods to America in exchange for an ever-growing pile of U.S. dollars. This could happen because the United States consumes much…

A Europe in Emotional Shock Grapples With a New Era
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A Europe in Emotional Shock Grapples With a New Era

#news #newstoday #topnews #newsupdates #trendingnews #topstories #headlines For decades a core objective of the Soviet Union was to “decouple” the United States from Europe. Decoupling, as it was called, would break the Western alliance that kept Soviet tanks from rolling across the Prussian plains. Now, in weeks, President Trump has…