Trump’s victory was cheered by populists across Central Europe, but his return looks anything but good news for regional economies already faltering as they enter 2025. The economies of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia are among the most vulnerable in the EU to the repeated threats by incoming US president, …

Europe’s far-right and illiberal populists are convinced of being “on the right side of history”. But if history is anything to go by, a Trump win could hold a few bitter surprises. “Americans are so enamoured of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom,” …

Since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, the US has provided 43 per cent of countries’ direct military commitments to Kyiv, according to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy. After the US, the only other double-digit contributor is Germany at 12 per cent. The third largest contributor …