MPs and peers oppose Donald Trump address to parliament during UK visit

Con­cerns raised address would be inap­pro­pri­ate because of president’s com­ments about UK, Nato and Ukraine A num­ber of MPs and peers have called for Don­ald Trump to be blocked from address­ing par­lia­ment when he vis­its the UK. The US pres­i­dent has sug­gest­ed Buck­ing­ham Palace is “set­ting a date for Sep­tem­ber” for him to come to Britain.…

Donald Trump is remaking the world. But he really won’t like the result | Nesrine Malik

As an errat­ic pres­i­dent impos­es his inter­na­tion­al doc­trine, coun­tries are forg­ing more sta­ble alliances. His US will be weak­er, not stronger One of the ways in which Don­ald Trump’s regime obscures and dis­tracts is by draw­ing our eyes con­stant­ly to the US – its raw pow­er to intim­i­date and bul­ly oth­er nations, and its vast…

Like it or not, the rules-based order is no more

Ivo Daalder, for­mer U.S. ambas­sador to NATO, is CEO of the Chica­go Coun­cil on Glob­al Affairs and host of the week­ly pod­cast “World Review with Ivo Daalder.” He writes POLITICO’s Across the Pond col­umn. A few weeks ago, when Dan­ish Prime Min­is­ter Mette Fred­erik­sen spoke with soon-to-be U.S. Pres­i­dent Don­ald Trump about his insis­tence on…