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At the NATO summit in Ankara, Donald Trump declared Spain 'a wasted cause' and threatened to end all US trade with the country. Because trade policy is an exclusive EU competence, any real confrontation would be with the entire single market — at a moment when the IMF is already trimming global growth forecasts.
President Trump says the U.S. will let Ukraine co-produce Patriot interceptors — the weapons defending its cities from Russian ballistic missiles. It is a small sentence with a large consequence: it changes how the West arms Ukraine, from shipping finished stock to sharing production.
Aviation bosses warn the EU's new Entry-Exit-System could push European airport terminals toward a standstill this summer, with queues of up to five hours for the 40 million passengers expected to fly. The bigger story: the post-Brexit border is being defined less by London than by a Brussels-run database.
Ukraine's president pressed for NATO membership at the Ankara summit even as Donald Trump revived his demand for Greenland and Russian strikes fell on Kyiv — three moves that expose an alliance no longer speaking with one voice.
Trump says Washington will drop the CAATSA sanctions on Turkey and weigh an F-35 sale, a deal struck face-to-face with Erdoğan that could rewire NATO's eastern flank. Here is what happened, why it matters, and what remains unconfirmed.
At the NATO summit in Ankara, Trump's freeloader broadside meets a German pushback from Wadephul, even as allies line up a $160bn pledge for Ukraine. The clash is less about one insult than about who leads European burden-sharing — and whether Berlin can carry it.
NATO leaders gather in Ankara under a Trump pressure campaign over defence spending, with Ukraine support and a fractured transatlantic bond hanging in the balance. Here's what's actually being decided — and what to watch.