Nato leaders must ‘not be naive’ about any potential Ukraine deployment, says head of German soldiers’ union – Ukraine war live

Col Andre Wuestner tells European Nato leaders they would need to deploy tens of thousands of troops to the country for the long term

We have just heard from the European Commission, confirming that the EU and the US have now agreed on the much-awaited “joint statement” advancing the political commitments on trade agreed by Ursula von der Leyen and Donald Trump in Scotland last month.

The commission’s press release says the statement “lays out in detail the new US tariff regime towards the EU, with a clear maximum, all-inclusive, tariff rate of 15% for the vast majority of EU exports, including strategic sectors such as cars, pharmaceuticals, semiconductors and lumber.”