We are at that moment in Animal Farm when the gentle carthorse Clover looks through the window to see the pigs playing cards and drinking a toast with men.

EU's chief diplomat warns the Trump administration, following efforts to re-forge diplomatic ties and end the war in Ukraine, to not allow Russian President Putin to divide the West.

Speaking in Munich last week, America’s vice-president, J.D. Vance, offered a taste of how the home of fine wines, classical architecture and welfare cheques faces humiliation, when he ridiculed Europe as decadent and undemocratic.