Earlier this year, with Ukraine’s counteroffensive falling flat, Russia asserting dominance in artillery fire and U.S. aid to Kyiv mired in Washington politics, the Czech government set up a platform to gather donations from allied countries to co-finance the purchase of ammunition from producers around the world. In doing so, the aim was to side-step
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French President Emmanuel Macron kicked off a visit to Brazil on Tuesday with the launch of a billion-euro Amazonian green investment plan alongside his counterpart Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. The pair’s trip to Belem, the northern host city of a major UN climate summit next year, makes Macron the first president of France to
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Economic and finance ministers of the European Union sealed on Wednesday a deal to reform the bloc’s fiscal rules, a breakthrough made only possible after Germany and France found a middle ground. ADVERTISEMENT Berlin and Paris had for months sat at opposing sides of the table, with the former pushing for automatic safeguards to slash