{"id":355306,"date":"2025-08-18T23:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T23:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/355306\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T23:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T23:05:12","slug":"trump-interrupts-talks-with-european-leaders-to-call-putin-says-eu-diplomat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/355306\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump interrupts talks with European leaders to call Putin, says EU diplomat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/people\/donald-trump\/\" data-ylk=\"slk:Donald Trump;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> has interrupted his talks in Washington with European leaders to call Russian President Vladimir Putin, an EU diplomat told Reuters on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The talks are due to resume after the call, which Trump had initially said would take place after he consulted with European leaders, added the diplomat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Germany&#8217;s Bild newspaper first reported the call.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The leaders of Germany, Britain, France, Italy, Finland and the European Union are accompanying Ukrainian President Volodymr Zelenskiy on his Washington trip, as well as the secretary-general of NATO.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">(Reporting by Andreas Rinke, Writing by Thomas Escritt and Miranda Murray)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump has interrupted his talks in Washington with European leaders to call Russian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5310],"tags":[32,2000,299,14165,1699,1824,41238,43717,6709],"class_list":{"0":"post-355306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-germany","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-eu","10":"tag-europe","11":"tag-european-leaders","12":"tag-european-union","13":"tag-germany","14":"tag-president-vladimir-putin","15":"tag-ukrainian-president","16":"tag-washington"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115052276981805903","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}