U.S. special envoy Steve Witkoff is meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin to discuss a peace plan that Washington hopes can end the nearly four-year war in Ukraine.

Europe is being singled out. In today’s Washington, it is often spoken of with greater loathing than either China or Russia. A big theme of the second Trump presidency is that it is done with policing the world,

Belgian police raided the EU’s diplomatic arm in Brussels and the College of Europe in Bruges as part of a probe into suspected fraud related to funding of junior officials, the bloc’s prosecutors said.

Atlantic drug flows mean that cocaine seizures in Europe now exceed those in North America.

The other is the National Escape Clause (nec), which allows countries to increase defence spending by up to 1.5% of gdp over the next four years without falling foul of eu deficit rules. Already 16 countries have signed up,

European manufacturers are increasing their investment in Chinese factories, despite growing anxiety among the continent’s political leaders about industrial dependence on the world’s exporting superpower.

Europe is forecast for unseasonably warm weather through much of December, curbing heating demand and weighing on natural gas prices.

Amazon is cutting the fees it charges sellers in Europe as it responds to competition from marketplaces like Shein and Temu that sell clothes, homeware and gadgets at rock-bottom prices. The move, which Amazon said in a statement on Tuesday was one of its largest ever fee reductions,