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Jeremy Bowen: Zelensky is buoyant, but Europe will struggle to guarantee Ukraine’s security
President Volodymyr Zelensky was in a buoyant mood when I met him in Paris with a panel of three other European journalists. He had interrupted a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace and went back there for what he called a “tête à tête dinner” after the interview. Macron had not…
Jeremy Bowen: Major crisis looms between Europe and US
The relationship between Donald Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky was bad enough before the shouting match in the Oval Office. President Trump had already called him a dictator and said Ukraine started the war – which is a lie. Now the US-Ukraine alliance nurtured by Joe Biden is in pieces. The public breakdown also signals a…
Jeremy Bowen: No sign of a quick peace dividend for Trump in Ukraine
The Russians and Americans are talking again, as European leaders and diplomats contemplate the hard choices forced on them by US President Donald Trump. Without question, Trump’s diplomatic ultimatum to Ukraine and America’s Western European allies has cracked the transatlantic alliance, perhaps beyond repair. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky looks rattled by the abrupt change of…
Bowen: Zelensky forced to face tough new reality after Trump-Putin phone call
America is under new management. Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky is joining a growing list of US allies who are finding that the world according to Donald Trump is a colder, more uncertain and potentially more dangerous place for them. It must have been bad enough for Zelensky to hear Trump’s abrupt announcement that he had…
Jeremy Bowen: Trump’s Gaza plan won’t happen, but it will have consequences
Donald Trump’s plan for the US to “take over” and “own” Gaza, resettling its population in the process, is not going to happen. It requires the co-operation of Arab states that have rejected it. They include Jordan and Egypt – countries that Trump wants to take in Gaza’s Palestinians – and Saudi Arabia, which might…
Bowen: Long-overdue deal may stop the killing but won’t end the conflict
A senior Palestinian official told the BBC that Hamas would release three female soldiers on the first day of the ceasefire. Mediators in Doha are trying an earlier start to the ceasefire, Thursday evening instead of Sunday. Until the ceasefire does come into effect, the war that started when Hamas attacked Israel on 7 October…