Catherine Colonna says bloc members should be less preoccupied with American election results Europe needs greater autonomy from the US in order to stop worrying so much about the outcome of elections the, the French foreign minister has argued. Catherine Colonna also stressed that trans-Atlantic ties should remain strong.

Moscow stands alone in its battle against the US-led NATO military bloc and is capable of vanquishing its enemies on its own, Russia’s former president Dmitry Medvedev has said.    “Russia alone is fighting NATO and the Western world,” Medvedev, who is the deputy head of the nation’s Security Council and the leader of the…

President Vladimir Zelensky had earlier said Kiev would be ready to talk to “a different Russia” Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba said he would “carefully consider” meeting his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov should the latter “ask” for such talks. The diplomat made the remarks to the media on the sidelines of the summit of the…