Amid continuing tensions among the European powers over how to respond to US President Donald Trump’s zig-zagging policy towards NATO and the Ukraine war, the French president and British prime minister made their latest effort to present an Anglo-French axis.

At the Ukraine Recovery Conference, European leaders pledged long-term support for Kyiv’s defense and reconstruction. Starmer and Macron revealed “ready” peacekeeping plans, while von der Leyen announced €4 billion in grants and a major reconstruction fund.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron are finalising a “one in, one out” scheme to curb crossings of refugees and migrants in small boats across the English Channel.

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Sir Keir Starmer and Emmanuel Macron have visited the British Museum to celebrate plans for a cultural exchange between the UK and France. The Prime Minister said: “In this new world our alliances are more important than