Eleanor Beardsley

He said Ukrainians have been living the same day for four years.

A year has passed, said Zelensky, and nothing has changed.

He exhorted Europe to stop the Russian shadow fleet selling the oil that's financing Putin's war and said Europeans must stop hoping President Trump will change.

He likes the way he is, Zelensky told them.

There will always be new threats, he said.

What's important is to act in time.

Let's end this Groundhog Day, said Zelensky.

Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Paris.

Wait, this is true?

Danish Foreign Minister Lars Loke Rasmussen welcomed the fact that Trump now says he won't use force to capture Greenland.

but warned that his expansionist ambitions remain intact.

Speaking on French television, former NATO General Olivier de Bavin-Chauve remarked on Trump's disdain for Europe.

He basically said, you are all ingrates, we Americans do everything, and without us, you are nothing.

Then, a few hours after his speech, Trump said he and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte have reached agreement on a framework of a future deal on Greenland.

No details yet, though it does not apparently entail the U.S.

owning the Arctic island.

Eleanor Beardsley, NPR News, Paris.

Europeans say Trump is using tariffs as a weapon after he threatened to hit any country hindering his plans to acquire Greenland with an extra 10% tariff.

European Parliament member Nathalie Loiseau says the transatlantic chaos is entirely of Trump's making.

On Tuesday, the European Parliament refused to ratify, as planned, a U.S.-EU trade deal that did not include sanctions on the U.S.