Overview
- In a Politico interview, President Donald Trump called European migration policy a catastrophe, urged mass deportations, and derided European leaders as weak.
- Trump said Volodymyr Zelensky is losing the war and must accept a U.S. peace plan, and he pressed for Ukrainian elections, which are not permitted under wartime law.
- The administration’s National Security Strategy, released Friday, criticizes Europe and calls for supporting right‑wing ‘patriotic’ parties, warning of Europe’s supposed civilizational erasure through migration.
- Zelensky, Germany’s Friedrich Merz, France’s Emmanuel Macron, and Britain’s Keir Starmer met in London to draft a 20‑point peace proposal that removes openly Ukraine‑hostile positions and is being sent to Washington.
- German politicians from CDU/CSU and SPD condemned Trump’s remarks, while reports of AfD engagement with U.S. Republican networks, including the New York Young Republican Club, stirred political and intelligence concerns in Berlin.