Trump officials planning talks with Russia in Saudi Arabia with European leaders set to gather in Paris for emergency Ukraine summit
Analysis: JD Vance laid bare collapse of transatlantic alliance
Today is the final day of the annual Munich Security Conference (MSC), which will be remembered for Friday’s speech by JD Vance, the US vice-president, in which he accused European leaders of suppressing free speech, failing to halt illegal migration and running in fear from voters’ true beliefs.
It came at the end of a week which left European leaders feeling sidelined from negotiations about the war in Ukraine and under even more pressure than before to increase domestic defence spending as the Trump administration made it clear (as if it hadn’t before) that Europe will have to provide “the overwhelming share” of future military aid to Kyiv.