“Diplomacy isn’t about flipping a switch overnight and then everything will be fine again,” the chancellor said in an interview.

Pro-Russian Revival Party leader Kostadin Kostadinov was filmed blocking the entrance of a car at a weapons plant in Sopot during a visit by Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Sunday.

Commission president says the EU executive will continue to play a central role in helping countries finance military spending.

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French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said Sunday that “Europe and France stand by" Denmark and Greenland, insisting that Greenland “is not for sale” on a visit to Greenland's capital, Nuuk. US President Donald Trump has repeatedly said that the US seeks to take control of the semi-autonomous territory of Denmark.

A suspect in the fatal shooting of prominent Ukrainian politician Andriy Parubiy has been arrested, the country's President Volodymyr Zelensky has said.

The 54-year-old parliamentarian was killed by an attacker posing as a courier in the western city of Lviv on Saturday, sparking a manhunt.

Dovile Sakaliene spoke to DW about Russia's war in Ukraine and Europe's strategic dependence on the US. "It's crucial that the Ukrainian army is kept strong, because that is the first security guarantee. That is the first line of defense," she said, adding that "we don't want to be a kid carried on the shoulders of the United States.

Airis Zapašnikas was handed the award last week at the annual event in Tokyo after impressing Japanese judges with dishes made from fish, vegetables and seafood.

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen has thanked Poland for defending Europe from “cynical hybrid attacks” during a visit with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk to the border with Belarus. She emphasised the “urgency” of protecting the EU’s frontier from the “predator” Vladimir Putin.

Oleksandra Matviichuk is a Ukrainian human rights lawyer. Since 2014 she has been documenting war crimes with her organization Centre for Civil Liberties, that was rewarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2022. In De Balie she will speak about the fate and role of citizens in war.

A flurry of diplomacy has changed little on the ground for Ukrainians. Now the EU wants to go beyond tried-and-tested methods of sanctioning Russia and sending arms to Kyiv.

“These are now exposed to new forms of tension and aggression,” he said, touring a French Navy vessel docked in the city harbour.

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Hungary will not agree to the opening of the first cluster of negotiations on Ukraine’s accession to the EU.

“Poland will be the biggest beneficiary of this common investment for joint procurement,” von der Leyen said. The commission will prepare a roadmap for how to invest the additional defense funds in coming weeks and will discuss it with national governments in October, she added.

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The head of the Hungarian opposition party Momentum Movement, Márton Tompos, called on Hungarians to donate money to the 414th Separate Brigade of Unmanned Aviation Systems “Birds of Madyar”.