Since Donald Trump announced the beginning of the peace negotiations over Russia's war against Ukraine, the US authorities have made several statements on what Ukraine should and should not expect. Yet,

European nations, particularly Ukraine’s neighbors and the Baltic states, were stunned when the U.S. President Donald Trump suddenly announced the start of peace negotiations with Russian President Vladimir Putin to end the war in Ukraine.

The European Union considers the phone conversation between US President Donald Trump and Russian leader Vladimir Putin as the beginning of a process. Brussels expects to see further developments, Sky News reports,

Top European officials had no clue Donald Trump was about to announce a peace plan for Ukraine, after a world-changing call to the Kremlin.

Fight or talk? That is the bleak option facing EU member states after US President Donald Trump escalated his trade war by pledging to levy tariffs for a number of ills such as selling cars Americans like to buy and taxing tech companies on the money they make in its market, writes Andy Bounds.