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We can't rule out the possibility that America might say no to Europe on issues that threaten it
In his keynote speech, Mr Zelensky said This is a once-in-a-generation moment for our national security where we engage with the reality of the world today and the threat we face from Russia
There is a new sheriff in town, ... We may disagree with your views but we will fight to defend your right to offer it in the public square.
he said, referring to Mr Trump US election triumph last November - adding Europe faces many challenges, but the crisis this continent faces right now, the crisis I believe we all face together, is one of our own making
There is a Tsarist tradition that he's leaning into - Peter the Great, Nicholas I - the worst of that period, imperial in its ambitions
To think that he's going to do this alone is wrong, we never said that.
He told the Munich conference The whole cabinet, the whole government [and] I think most people in this country recognise the pressures the world is under, recognize more will have to be spent on defence.”
On defence spending, Mr Reynolds told Sky News Of course, there comes a time when discussions have to begin. The president of the United States has begun those conversations with Putin. But the end state of this conversation is nowhere near, and everything is on the table,
When I spoke to Kellogg yesterday he didn’t say anything of that sort,
What we lacked on Ukraine in recent years was one personality highly respected by everyone, taken into account in Moscow, taken into account in Kyiv, and having support in Washington and European capitals and other leaders, including the global South, that could have the authority to manage the peace talks,
Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic said If I may just throw out one idea loosely, if there is a negotiating table, I think we need to do something similar that was done in Kosovo,
Finnish President Alexander Stubb said at the annual Munich Security Conference, referring to diplomacy that helped end Serbia's 1998-99 military crackdown on its restive southern province and bring about Kosovan statehood I didn't let the ministers sign a relevant agreement because in my view it is not ready to protect us, our interest,
Mr Zelensky said yesterday If the US wants us to step up in defence, it should have a national component, a Nato component, but I also believe a European EU component, EU subsidies for the defence industry to build up our capacity to produce, but also an EU force worthy of its name,
President Trump has a method of operating, which the Russians call reconnaissance through battle. You push and you see what happens, and then you change your position, legitimate tactics. And we need to respond,
Don’t think that not meeting the challenge now somehow saves us money down the line,
Mr Lammy said on Saturday If you understand by it the unification of national armies, it will not happen,
And to my European friends, I would say, get into the debate, not by complaining that you might, yes or no, be at the table, but by coming up with concrete proposals, ideas, ramp up (defense) spending,
The Americans are approaching European capitals and asking how many soldiers they are ready to deploy,
There's no way in which we can have discussions or negotiations about Ukraine, Ukraine's future or European security structure, without Europeans,
Finland's President Alexander Stubb told reporters in Munich Russia is really a petrostate,
