Incoming German leader will hold high-stakes talks with French president as Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump hover over Europe.

The US has allocated the most of any single country, $119 billion, according to the Germany-based Kiel Institute for the World Economy, which catalogues aid to the war-torn country through its Ukraine Support Tracker, focusing on government-to-government transfers.

PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron will dine with Germany's chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Wednesday evening, the Elysee said. The palace said the two leaders would meet for a "working dinner" but gave no further detail.

French President Emmanuel Macron said he wants the European Union to boost its military autonomy and alleviate reliance on the US over the next five to 10 years — responding to a long-running demand from Washington.

Trump's rhetoric at the time sparked a major debate over the future of European security. Macron, who also took office in 2017, began to propose the formation of a "true European army" as an alternative to NATO and famously warned of the "brain death" of the alliance in 2019.

Come on, you cannot have a trade war with China and Europe at the same time,” Macron tells Fox News in an interview.

French president, Emmanuel Macron, has been praised for grabbing Donald Trump’s arm and interrupting him mid-interview to correct his false Ukraine claims.

A Ukraine peace deal will not survive without American “backup”, Emmanuel Macron has warned Donald Trump...