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US putting ‘unacceptable’ pressure on Greenland, Danish prime minister says

Elsewhere, there is growing frustration in Denmark and Greenland over the growing US appetite to control the island.

The latest escalation comes as Usha Vance, the wife of US vice-president JD Vance set to attend the national dogsled race in Greenland later this week, with US national security adviser Mike Waltz and energy secretary Chris Wright also visiting a US military base on the island.

The visits are seen as interference with Greenland’s internal politics just weeks after recent elections, which did not show majority support for a closer relationship with the US, with a negotiation over the next government still on-going.

Outgoing prime minister Múte Boroup Egede criticised the visits and insisted “it must be stated in bold that our integrity and democracy must be respected without any external interference.”

But this morning the Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, went further, calling out “unacceptable pressure” from the US.

She told broadcaster TV2 that the planned trips could not be seen as unrelated to increasingly assertive “statements and reports we have heard from the American side, starting in January and up until now.”

“It is clearly not a visit that is about what Greenland needs, or what Greenland wants,” she said.

“I have to say that it is unacceptable pressure being placed on Greenland and Denmark in this situation. And it is pressure that we will resist,” she told TV2.

“It is clear that when you make a visit in this way, and the Greenlandic politicians clearly say that they do not want the visit, you cannot interpret it as respectful,” she added, according to TV2.

Protesters take part in a demonstration march ending in front of the U.S. consulate, under the slogan, Greenland belongs to the Greenlandic people, in Nuuk, Greenland earlier this month.
Protesters take part in a demonstration march ending in front of the U.S. consulate, under the slogan, Greenland belongs to the Greenlandic people, in Nuuk, Greenland earlier this month. Photograph: Christian Klindt Soelbeck/Reuters

In the new context of the upcoming visit of his wife, many commentators turned their attention to JD Vance’s interview with Fox from last month.

In highly immflamatory remarks, reported by us on Europe Live at the time, he claimed that Denmark is “not doing its job, and it’s not being a good ally” by not countering the Chinese and Russian use of sea lanes in the area.

Trump’s No.2 asserted that the territory is “really important to our national security.”

He said:

How are we going to solve that problem, solve our own national security?
If that means that we need to take more territorial interest in Greenland, that is what President Trump is going to do because he doesn’t care about what the Europeans scream at us, he cares about putting the interest of American citizens first.

For what it’s worth, Brian Hughes, spokesperson for the White House National Security Council, said the delegation aimed to “learn about Greenland, its culture, history, and people.”

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It is consistent with his past arguments that the US is overpaying for European security and the derision he displayed toward European allies (almost certainly the UK and France) when he described them as “some random country that hasn’t fought a war in 30 or 40 years”. (Both fought in Afghanistan and the UK fought alongside the US in Iraq).</p>”,”elementId”:”e4ba4317-b525-4fe1-a4b2-8f1fb369cc3b”},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”<p>Then Vance went a step further. He tacitly admitted a difference between his foreign policy and Trump’s saying that the strike would undermine the president’s Europe policy – one that has been led by Vance in his divisive speech at the Munich Security Conference where he accused European leaders of running from their own electorates and of his Eurosceptic comments on Fox News.</p>”,”elementId”:”08d198e5-ca4a-48cb-9450-6762ee4802cd”},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”<p>“I am not sure the president is aware how inconsistent this is with his message on Europe right now,” Vance wrote. “There’s a further risk that we see a moderate to severe spike in oil prices. I am willing to support the consensus of the team and keep these concerns to myself. But there is a strong argument for delaying this a month, doing the messaging work on why this matters, seeing where the economy is, etc.”</p>”,”elementId”:”cc4f4f58-98f8-4025-bc8b-7e9588fc144a”},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”<p>At heart, the disagreement indicated that Vance’s views of foreign policy are not quite aligned with Trump. Trump broadly sees the world as transactional and optimists in Europe have claimed he could force a positive outcome by forcing those nations to spend more on defense budgets. But Vance appears far more confrontational and principled in his antipathy toward the transatlantic alliance, and has attacked European leaders for backing values that he says are not aligned with the US.</p>”,”elementId”:”29b91d90-a31a-40a2-be08-a21555515cf3″},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”<p>That makes Vance even more of a concern for Europe. <strong>Kaja Kallas</strong>, the European foreign policy chief, accused Vance of <a href=\”https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/15/europe-will-not-take-part-in-us-russia-talks-ukraine-kellogg\”>“trying to pick a fight”</a> with European allies. Another European diplomat said: “He is very dangerous for Europe … maybe the most [dangerous] in the administration.” Another said he was “obsessed” with driving a wedge between Europe and the US.</p>”,”elementId”:”03f229ca-2aa5-4a21-a39b-fc266e693bce”},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”<p>Broadly, the administration’s policies on Europe are coming into focus. And there are few stepping up to voice backing for Nato or for Europe writ large. On a podcast interview this weekend, the senior Trump envoy <strong>Steve Witkoff</strong> mused about the potential for the Gulf economies to replace those of Europe. “It could be much bigger than Europe. Europe is dysfunctional today,” he said.</p>”,”elementId”:”57393957-05a7-4b13-8246-3864e571e5e5″},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”<p><strong>Tucker Carlson</strong>, the host and another Trump confidant, agreed. “It would be good for the world because Europe is dying,” he said.</p>”,”elementId”:”578d473e-6e4d-4e57-ab7a-8959f3fd1e12″},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement”,”prefix”:”Related: “,”text”:”Stunning Signal leak reveals depths of Trump administration’s loathing of Europe”,”elementId”:”b4321843-898b-4114-a8f0-5f03a188486c”,”role”:”thumbnail”,”url”:”https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/mar/25/stunning-signal-leak-reveals-depths-of-trump-administrations-loathing-of-europe”}],”attributes”:{“pinned”:false,”keyEvent”:true,”summary”:false},”blockCreatedOn”:1742891469000,”blockCreatedOnDisplay”:”08.31 GMT”,”blockLastUpdated”:1742891638000,”blockLastUpdatedDisplay”:”08.33 GMT”,”blockFirstPublished”:1742891638000,”blockFirstPublishedDisplay”:”08.33 GMT”,”blockFirstPublishedDisplayNoTimezone”:”08.33″,”title”:”Stunning Signal leak reveals depths of Trump administration’s loathing of Europe – analysis”,”contributors”:[{“name”:”Andrew Roth”,”imageUrl”:”https://i.guim.co.uk/img/uploads/2019/06/07/Andrew-Roth.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=cdbc60ad355fd8fcf3d98fbbbf89fa50″,”largeImageUrl”:”https://i.guim.co.uk/img/uploads/2019/06/07/Andrew_Roth,_L.png?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=b43b83c4998787fd8c68631b800cb8f7″}],”primaryDateLine”:”Tue 25 Mar 2025 12.11 GMT”,”secondaryDateLine”:”First published on Tue 25 Mar 2025 08.25 GMT”},{“id”:”67e25c428f08bef627ac8bf4″,”elements”:[{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”<p>Look, we have all been there. Now and then, you get added to the wrong group on a messaging app (usually some spam), check your suspicions, leave it, and forget it.</p>”,”elementId”:”636d5a3d-97c4-4218-9195-7a8ac3dd0dba”},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”<p>It’s not quite the same, however, if you get added to a top-secret operational group by the US national security adviser alongside some of the most senior US administration officials, up to the level of the actual US vice-president, where they discuss strikes on another country on a commercial chat app.</p>”,”elementId”:”cad69508-35a6-4d15-a452-95ef5f669fd2″},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”<p>Europe wakes up with astonishment to reports in the Atlantic – and the authenticity of the group confirmed by the White House – that <a href=\”https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/03/trump-administration-accidentally-texted-me-its-war-plans/682151/\”>“The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans”</a> on strikes against the Huthis in Yemen.</p>”,”elementId”:”e7d26254-2dcd-45c8-8d3f-2e16f08748a4″},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement”,”prefix”:”Related: “,”text”:”White House inadvertently texted top-secret Yemen war plans to journalist”,”elementId”:”8e11168a-8b9f-49cc-a751-7204fcc20935″,”role”:”thumbnail”,”url”:”https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/24/journalist-trump-yemen-war-chat”},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”<p>There is a lot to be said about the foreign policy, intelligence implications of this highly-sensitive security leak, and we have key US reactions for you here.</p>”,”elementId”:”8353dea6-b021-40bd-b54b-4a986a545c1a”},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.RichLinkBlockElement”,”prefix”:”Related: “,”text”:”Outrage after White House accidentally texts journalist war plans: ‘Huge screw-up’”,”elementId”:”af6d45a3-d192-4c61-8dc5-a18092cc255e”,”role”:”thumbnail”,”url”:”https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/24/journalist-trump-yemen-war-chat-reaction”},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”<p>However, one other thing that stands out in the texts revealed by the Atlantic is genuine and visceral resentment against <a href=\”https://www.theguardian.com/world/europe-news\” data-component=\”auto-linked-tag\”>Europe</a> among top US officials.</p>”,”elementId”:”7fea4ab7-6d1e-4fe8-bccb-05fba1eba463″},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”<p><strong>JD Vance</strong>, of the Munich speech fame, says how much he hates “bailing Europe again,” arguing that the strike and the unblocking of routes would benefit Europe most.</p>”,”elementId”:”ac889c52-b285-4010-b64b-b66c6bfe4c87″},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”<p>US defence secretary <strong>Pete Hegseth</strong> joins in along similar lines: “I fully share your loathing of European free-loading. It’s PATHETIC.”</p>”,”elementId”:”798f1edc-5cdb-4f46-a04f-777ae41faef2″},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”<p>Other officials discuss how they could claim the costs of the strike back from Europe, with “further economic gain extracted in return.”</p>”,”elementId”:”1d975160-618a-4993-bd0f-115a8473e959″},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”<p>The leak raises major questions about the safety of sharing intelligence with the US, how it’s handled, and who has access to sensitive information.</p>”,”elementId”:”25c8d3d6-2dcd-4a35-8410-a304cf8ede38″},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”<p>Allies will also no doubt take note of the fact that the group appears to have been created just as US envoy <strong>Steve Witkoff</strong> may have been, erm, literally at the Kremlin holding talks with Vladimir Putin over <a href=\”https://www.theguardian.com/world/ukraine\” data-component=\”auto-linked-tag\”>Ukraine</a>. This prompts further concerns. I’m sure the Kremlin wifi has strong privacy protections, right?</p>”,”elementId”:”4447d896-d6f3-4063-8d0b-c34dbf8d9e2d”},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”<p>The breach comes at a particularly sensitive time as Europe waits to learn what has come out of US talks with <a href=\”https://www.theguardian.com/world/russia\” data-component=\”auto-linked-tag\”>Russia</a> in Riyadh, so we are unlikely to hear many public reactions to these comments from seething Europeans. <em>(But, by all means, add me to your secret groups and let me know what you think, European diplomats!).</em></p>”,”elementId”:”b14627f4-42da-44c5-b349-0ff3d3a64d95″},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”<p>But first reactions from some of former leaders and diplomats give you an idea of what they may think.</p>”,”elementId”:”7a62a35f-697b-47e4-87fa-f4405efaa8aa”},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”<p>Former Swedish prime minister <strong>Carl Bildt</strong> noted that “in the amazing story of the Signal group coordinating Yemen air strikes, Vice President JD Vance once again comes out as driven by <strong>deep anti-European resentment.”</strong></p>”,”elementId”:”7da50feb-4598-471e-aa1a-e06b91645698″},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”<p>Former Polish ambassador to the US <strong>Marek Magierowski</strong> described the report simply as <strong>“chilling.” </strong>On Witkoff, he added: “Le Carré, Forsyth and Clancy together would not have come up with such an absurd scenario.”</p>”,”elementId”:”a91c54f0-c6df-4f07-9214-8624beb9b7b4″},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”<p>It’s a long day ahead for us as we await update on US-Russia talks, and with the first sitting of the new German parliament, so let’s get going.</p>”,”elementId”:”39736c38-b8d5-48ee-af4e-3da136515029″},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”<p>It’s <strong>Tuesday, 25 March 2025</strong>, and this is <strong>Europe live</strong>. It’s <strong>Jakub Krupa</strong> here.</p>”,”elementId”:”68f9121b-a3bf-4312-9aac-42cd7e6cd4bf”},{“_type”:”model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.TextBlockElement”,”html”:”<p>Good morning.</p>”,”elementId”:”73382ba7-0fff-46bf-afbe-2a8780d920d3″}],”attributes”:{“pinned”:false,”keyEvent”:true,”summary”:false},”blockCreatedOn”:1742891155000,”blockCreatedOnDisplay”:”08.25 GMT”,”blockLastUpdated”:1742891144000,”blockLastUpdatedDisplay”:”08.25 GMT”,”blockFirstPublished”:1742891155000,”blockFirstPublishedDisplay”:”08.25 GMT”,”blockFirstPublishedDisplayNoTimezone”:”08.25″,”title”:”Morning opening: New group, who this?”,”contributors”:[{“name”:”Jakub Krupa”,”imageUrl”:”https://i.guim.co.uk/img/uploads/2025/01/22/Jakub_Krupa.jpg?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=41cc9981ec7b067e2d3b5391c5a68a4f”,”largeImageUrl”:”https://i.guim.co.uk/img/uploads/2025/01/22/Jakub_Krupa.png?width=300&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=4a039a2b765744058f3c2c677268513e”}],”primaryDateLine”:”Tue 25 Mar 2025 12.11 GMT”,”secondaryDateLine”:”First published on Tue 25 Mar 2025 08.25 GMT”}],”filterKeyEvents”:false,”id”:”key-events-carousel-mobile”,”absoluteServerTimes”:false,”renderingTarget”:”Web”}”>Key events

Russia sought to blame Ukraine for blocking a joint US-Russian statement on progress made in peace talks in Saudi Arabia, with senior Russian senator Vladimir Chizhov telling state TV channel Rossiya-24:

“The fact that they sat for 12 hours and apparently agreed on a joint statement, which was not adopted though because of Ukraine’s position, is very typical and symptomatic,” Reuters reported.

Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that “there is an understanding that the contacts will continue, but there is nothing concrete at the moment.”

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‘Not security posture I am used to with Americans,’ former head of Dutch cybersecurity says on Signal group blunder

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Jennifer Rankin

A former head of Dutch cybersecurity has expressed his surprise at Donald Trump’s top team’s use of Signal for classified communications that revealed “visceral anti-European messaging”.

Bart Groothuis, an MEP for the Dutch liberal VVD party, who used to run the cybersecurity bureau at the Dutch ministry of defence, said he was “a bit surprised” at the US government’s use of a commercial app for highly classified conversations.

“This is not the security posture I am used to when it comes to the Americans,” he told the Guardian, adding he was struck by the “visceral anti-European messaging from both Vice President Vance and others”.

Groothuis, who is also vice-chair of the European parliament’s Iranian relations committee, also expressed bafflement at the suggestion that the US had no interest in containing the Houthis, an Iranian-backed proxy group, which has carried out attacks on commercial ships in the Red Sea.

In the exchanges, US vice-president JD Vance said only 3% of US trade goes through the Suez canal, compared with 40% of European trade, arguing that the US was doing what Europe should do. “I just hate bailing Europe out again,” Vance said.

Groothuis said “what they fail to understand” is that the Houthis were an Iranian proxy and their containment was about “putting maximum pressure” on the Iranian regime and its nuclear ambitions.

“So it is also in the American interest and the direct American interest to keep a lid on the proxies of Iran,” he said. “Did it ever occur to them that it is in the direct interest of the US itself?”

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Nearly three quarters of Europeans think their country benefits from EU, study finds

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Jennifer Rankin

EU flags flutter outside the EU Commission headquarters in Brussels. Photograph: François Lenoir/Reuters

A historic high of nearly three quarters of European citizens think their country benefits from EU membership, amid increasing geopolitical turbulence.

According to the latest Eurobarometer survey, 74% of people think their country benefits from EU membership, the best result since this question was first asked in 1983, reflecting an increasingly positive mood since 2010 when the union was in the depths of the eurozone financial crisis.

The poll commissioned by the European parliament surveyed 26,354 people over fifteen across the 27 member states over January and early February, a time when Donald Trump returned to the White House, but before some of his officials’ most hostile statements towards European allies.

More than a third of respondents (36%) picked out defence and security from a list as priorities the EU should focus on to reinforce its position in the world, followed by competitiveness and economy (32%), energy independence and resources (27%).

But asked to pick their top priority to be addressed by the European parliament, the most popular choice (46%) was inflation, rising prices and the cost of living, followed by defence (31%). Public health and the fight against the climate crisis both declined on this priority list in comparison with previous years, chosen by 25% and 21% of respondents respectively.

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US putting ‘unacceptable’ pressure on Greenland, Danish prime minister says

Elsewhere, there is growing frustration in Denmark and Greenland over the growing US appetite to control the island.

The latest escalation comes as Usha Vance, the wife of US vice-president JD Vance set to attend the national dogsled race in Greenland later this week, with US national security adviser Mike Waltz and energy secretary Chris Wright also visiting a US military base on the island.

The visits are seen as interference with Greenland’s internal politics just weeks after recent elections, which did not show majority support for a closer relationship with the US, with a negotiation over the next government still on-going.

Outgoing prime minister Múte Boroup Egede criticised the visits and insisted “it must be stated in bold that our integrity and democracy must be respected without any external interference.”

But this morning the Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, went further, calling out “unacceptable pressure” from the US.

She told broadcaster TV2 that the planned trips could not be seen as unrelated to increasingly assertive “statements and reports we have heard from the American side, starting in January and up until now.”

“It is clearly not a visit that is about what Greenland needs, or what Greenland wants,” she said.

“I have to say that it is unacceptable pressure being placed on Greenland and Denmark in this situation. And it is pressure that we will resist,” she told TV2.

“It is clear that when you make a visit in this way, and the Greenlandic politicians clearly say that they do not want the visit, you cannot interpret it as respectful,” she added, according to TV2.

Protesters take part in a demonstration march ending in front of the U.S. consulate, under the slogan, Greenland belongs to the Greenlandic people, in Nuuk, Greenland earlier this month. Photograph: Christian Klindt Soelbeck/Reuters

In the new context of the upcoming visit of his wife, many commentators turned their attention to JD Vance’s interview with Fox from last month.

In highly immflamatory remarks, reported by us on Europe Live at the time, he claimed that Denmark is “not doing its job, and it’s not being a good ally” by not countering the Chinese and Russian use of sea lanes in the area.

Trump’s No.2 asserted that the territory is “really important to our national security.”

He said:

How are we going to solve that problem, solve our own national security?
If that means that we need to take more territorial interest in Greenland, that is what President Trump is going to do because he doesn’t care about what the Europeans scream at us, he cares about putting the interest of American citizens first.

For what it’s worth, Brian Hughes, spokesperson for the White House National Security Council, said the delegation aimed to “learn about Greenland, its culture, history, and people.”

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US-Ukraine talks in Saudi Arabia have ended, source says

In the meantime, let’s get an update on the US-Ukraine talks in Saudi Arabia, with a source in Kyiv’s delegation telling reporters that they have now ended.

“The talks are over. All details will be announced later,” the source told a small group of media, including AFP.

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New Bundestag off to a rocky start

Lawmakers attend the constituent session of the newly elected German parliament Bundestag in Berlin, Germany. Photograph: Markus Schreiber/AP

In a sign of how different this Bundestag is going to be, the first sitting is already off to a rocky start as the far-right Alternative für Deutschland gets off the mark with a challenge to the practice of the longest-serving member chairing the plenary until a president gets elected, instead calling for the oldest member to be given the task (which, you guessed it, would have been an AfD politician).

The party argues that was the original practice before 2017, and which was only changed to prevent an AfD politician assuming the role.

Today’s chair is Die Linke’s Gregor Gysi, the longest-serving member of parliament, who began his political career in the Socialist Unity party in communist East Germany. The 77-year-old will be free to decide the length and content of his opening speech, and will chair the session until the president of the Bundestag is elected.

But speaking for the AfD, Bernd Baumann said the AfD’s Alexander Gauland would be “the legitimate and true oldest member of parliament” under the role, criticising the CDU/CSU conservatives for “prefering a figurehead of the radical left to a deserving veteran from formerly its own ranks.”

Gauland is a former CDU member and a former journalist who in 2018 downplayed Hitler and the Nazis as “just birdshit in our more than 1,000-year history”.

“It doesn’t do you any good to deny us all our rights,” Baumann said, adding that these “tricks” will not “prevent our rise.”

Other parties oppose the challenge, so it has no chance of succeeding and indeed fails – but the initiative sets the confrontational tone that we will see in this Bundestag more often, as the AfD uses its new, stronger position in the new parliament.

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New German Bundestag meets for the first time

General view of the German lower house of parliament, the Bundestag, before the start of the session, in Berlin, Germany. Photograph: Fabrizio Bensch/Reuters

Elsewhere, the new German parliament is set to meet for the first time today, with the far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) the strongest opposition faction.

My colleague Ajit Niranjan put together this brilliant explainer on what to expect from the new Bundestag, elected last month.

The 630 members of the Bundestag, 230 of whom are newly elected, will sit in parliament at a unique time in postwar German history. The AfD has doubled its number of seats to 152, while centrist parties are overhauling the country’s military and fiscal policy in response to rising threats to European security.
The MPs taking seats on Tuesday range in age from 23 to 84. The youngest is Luke Hoss, a student from the far-left Die Linke who has promised to give away most of his €11,000-a-month salary. The oldest is Alexander Gauland, a former journalist from the AfD who in 2018 downplayed Hitler and the Nazis as “just birdshit in our more than 1,000-year history”.
The new parliament contains about 100 fewer MPs than the previous one after the outgoing government reformed Germany’s electoral law to shrink persistent bloat. Fewer than a third of MPs in the new Bundestag are women, slightly below the share in the previous legislature.
Tense coalition talks are under way between the CDU/CSU, the largest faction in parliament, and the Social Democratic party (SPD). The chancellor-in-waiting, Merz, hopes to form a government before Easter.

The sitting starts at 11am CET, with a speech from Gregor Gysi, the longest-serving member of parliament, who began his political career in the Socialist Unity party in communist East Germany.

The 77-year-old will be free to decide the length and content of his speech, and will chair the session until the president of the Bundestag is elected.

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Content of US-Russia talks not to be made public, Kremlin says

We are now hearing more from the Kremlin, with spokesperson Dmitry Peskov offering an update on the talks.

He has just said that Russia and the US are analysing the outcome of the talks before considering next steps as delegations reported back to their capitals, but – contrary to expectations – said the content of the discussions would not be published, Reuters reported.

Peskov added there were currently no plans for a phone call between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump.

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Further US-led talks in Riyadh taking place today

A handout still image taken from handout video provided by the Russian Foreign ministry press-service shows Russian delegation, adviser to the head of FSB Sergey Beseda (L) and senator and former diplomat Grigory Karasin (C), leave the Ritz-Carlton hotel, after talks between Russia and the US in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Photograph: Russian Foreign Ministry Press Service Handout/EPA

If you are wondering where we are with US-led “shuttle diplomacy” on Ukraine, the latest update this morning said that Ukrainian and US officials were holding another round of talks this morning.

“We are still working with the Americans,” a member of the Ukrainian delegation told a small group of media including AFP.

This comes, as AFP noted, a day after 12 hours of talks between the US and Russian delegations on a partial ceasefire in Ukraine.

Russian media reported that a draft joint US-Russian statement had been sent to Moscow and Washington for approval, with the parties aiming to release it on Tuesday.

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Stunning Signal leak reveals depths of Trump administration’s loathing of Europe – analysis

Andrew Roth

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If Europe wasn’t already on notice, the extraordinary leak of deliberations by JD Vance and other top-level Trump administration officials over a strike against the Houthis in Yemen was another sign that it has a target on its back.

On the face of it, the strike against the Houthis had far more to do with the administration’s policies on protecting maritime trade and containing Iran than its concerns about Europe freeloading on US defense spending and military prowess.

But Vance appears determined to push that angle as a reason to postpone the strike.

Vance was contending that once again the United States is doing what Europe should be. It is consistent with his past arguments that the US is overpaying for European security and the derision he displayed toward European allies (almost certainly the UK and France) when he described them as “some random country that hasn’t fought a war in 30 or 40 years”. (Both fought in Afghanistan and the UK fought alongside the US in Iraq).

Then Vance went a step further. He tacitly admitted a difference between his foreign policy and Trump’s saying that the strike would undermine the president’s Europe policy – one that has been led by Vance in his divisive speech at the Munich Security Conference where he accused European leaders of running from their own electorates and of his Eurosceptic comments on Fox News.

“I am not sure the president is aware how inconsistent this is with his message on Europe right now,” Vance wrote. “There’s a further risk that we see a moderate to severe spike in oil prices. I am willing to support the consensus of the team and keep these concerns to myself. But there is a strong argument for delaying this a month, doing the messaging work on why this matters, seeing where the economy is, etc.”

At heart, the disagreement indicated that Vance’s views of foreign policy are not quite aligned with Trump. Trump broadly sees the world as transactional and optimists in Europe have claimed he could force a positive outcome by forcing those nations to spend more on defense budgets. But Vance appears far more confrontational and principled in his antipathy toward the transatlantic alliance, and has attacked European leaders for backing values that he says are not aligned with the US.

That makes Vance even more of a concern for Europe. Kaja Kallas, the European foreign policy chief, accused Vance of “trying to pick a fight” with European allies. Another European diplomat said: “He is very dangerous for Europe … maybe the most [dangerous] in the administration.” Another said he was “obsessed” with driving a wedge between Europe and the US.

Broadly, the administration’s policies on Europe are coming into focus. And there are few stepping up to voice backing for Nato or for Europe writ large. On a podcast interview this weekend, the senior Trump envoy Steve Witkoff mused about the potential for the Gulf economies to replace those of Europe. “It could be much bigger than Europe. Europe is dysfunctional today,” he said.

Tucker Carlson, the host and another Trump confidant, agreed. “It would be good for the world because Europe is dying,” he said.

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Morning opening: New group, who this?

Jakub Krupa

Jakub Krupa

Look, we have all been there. Now and then, you get added to the wrong group on a messaging app (usually some spam), check your suspicions, leave it, and forget it.

It’s not quite the same, however, if you get added to a top-secret operational group by the US national security adviser alongside some of the most senior US administration officials, up to the level of the actual US vice-president, where they discuss strikes on another country on a commercial chat app.

Europe wakes up with astonishment to reports in the Atlantic – and the authenticity of the group confirmed by the White House – that “The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans” on strikes against the Huthis in Yemen.

There is a lot to be said about the foreign policy, intelligence implications of this highly-sensitive security leak, and we have key US reactions for you here.

However, one other thing that stands out in the texts revealed by the Atlantic is genuine and visceral resentment against Europe among top US officials.

JD Vance, of the Munich speech fame, says how much he hates “bailing Europe again,” arguing that the strike and the unblocking of routes would benefit Europe most.

US defence secretary Pete Hegseth joins in along similar lines: “I fully share your loathing of European free-loading. It’s PATHETIC.”

Other officials discuss how they could claim the costs of the strike back from Europe, with “further economic gain extracted in return.”

The leak raises major questions about the safety of sharing intelligence with the US, how it’s handled, and who has access to sensitive information.

Allies will also no doubt take note of the fact that the group appears to have been created just as US envoy Steve Witkoff may have been, erm, literally at the Kremlin holding talks with Vladimir Putin over Ukraine. This prompts further concerns. I’m sure the Kremlin wifi has strong privacy protections, right?

The breach comes at a particularly sensitive time as Europe waits to learn what has come out of US talks with Russia in Riyadh, so we are unlikely to hear many public reactions to these comments from seething Europeans. (But, by all means, add me to your secret groups and let me know what you think, European diplomats!).

But first reactions from some of former leaders and diplomats give you an idea of what they may think.

Former Swedish prime minister Carl Bildt noted that “in the amazing story of the Signal group coordinating Yemen air strikes, Vice President JD Vance once again comes out as driven by deep anti-European resentment.”

Former Polish ambassador to the US Marek Magierowski described the report simply as “chilling.” On Witkoff, he added: “Le Carré, Forsyth and Clancy together would not have come up with such an absurd scenario.”

It’s a long day ahead for us as we await update on US-Russia talks, and with the first sitting of the new German parliament, so let’s get going.

It’s Tuesday, 25 March 2025, and this is Europe live. It’s Jakub Krupa here.

Good morning.

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