Last week, the continent confronted its worst fears about the new president, but also recognized the need for a new strategy.

US President Donald Trump is sending his vice president, JD Vance, to the Munich Security Conference. It could be an uncomfortable meeting for the Europeans.

While the far right made historic gains in Germany's elections on Sunday, Conservative politician Friedrich Merz won with nearly 29% of the vote.

MUNICH — The Trump administration began its first week of negotiations to end the war in Ukraine with a dizzying array of mixed signals that confused and worried America’s European allies and seemed to reward chiefly Russian President Vladimir Putin.

The Trump administration's sharp pivot toward Russia and the president's verbal attacks on Volodymyr Zelenskyy sent shock waves across the Atlantic this week.

Speaking at the annual gathering, Vice President JD Vance urged European leaders to wage culture wars but ignored Ukraine and downplayed threats from Russia and China.

After their initial shock at Trump’s false claims that Ukraine is led by a “dictator” who started the war with Russia, the Ukrainian people are rallying around their President.

Vice President JD Vance set off a firestorm in Munich when he chastised European leaders for their hostility toward free speech, their democratic deficit and their poorly conceived immigration policies.

The chief of the criminal division at the U.S. Attorney's Office for Washington, D.C., abruptly resigned Tuesday amid pressure from top Trump Justice Department appointees to freeze assets stemming from a Biden administration-era environmental initiative, sources familiar with the matter told ABC News.

President Donald Trump's message for Europe is clear—and unpalatably delivered for many of Washington's continental allies. Few officials in Europe, gathered in southern Germany for the Munich ...

"Trump and Vance cannot merely be accused of appeasing dictators and far-right extremists," writes one reader. "It’s something even worse."

Jonathan Martin is POLITICO’s senior political columnist and politics bureau chief. He’s covered elections in every corner of America and co-authored a best-selling book about Donald Trump and ...