After President Vladimir Putin ordered his troops into Ukraine three years ago and hiked energy prices to weaken Western support, the 27 nations weaned themselves off a dependency on Russian natural gas in record time.

The anniversary was being marked as U.S. policies on Russia and Ukraine shift under President Donald Trump. The European Union’s top diplomat insists that the U.S. cannot seal any peace deal to end the war with Russian President Vladimir Putin without Ukraine or Europe being involved.

And despite decades of integration under the European Union, who speaks for Europe – or what the bloc desires to be – is perhaps less clear now than at any point in recent years. Internal cleavages over immigration,

In response, the 27 EU nations weaned themselves off a dependency on Russian energy in record time. Now, they face the challenge of ending their reliance on the United States to provide security. In recent weeks,

BRUSSELS - The European Union, an entity that has long cast itself as a peace and trade project, is in crisis talks Thursday focused on defending itself. Along with the specter of a belligerent

The anniversary was being marked as U.S. policies on Russia and Ukraine shift under President Donald Trump. Here's the latest: KYIV — Finnish President Alexander Stubb said Europe needs “to make clear to the Russians and everyone else that there are a few things that are completely off the table in these negotiations" to end the war in Ukraine.