Nato leaders must ‘not be naive’ about any potential Ukraine deployment, says head of German soldiers’ union – as it happened

<p>This live blog is now closed, you can read more on this story <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/aug/21/russia-ukraine-trump-peace-foreign-intervention-veto-demand">here</a></p><p>We have just heard from the European Commission, confirming that <strong>the EU and the US have now agreed on the much-awaited “joint statement” advancing the political commitments on trade</strong> agreed by Ursula von der Leyen and Donald Trump in Scotland last month.</p><p>The <a href="https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_1973">commission’s press release</a> says <strong>the statement “lays out in detail the new US tariff regime towards the EU, with a clear maximum, all-inclusive, tariff rate of 15% for the vast majority of EU exports</strong>, including strategic sectors such as <strong>cars</strong>, <strong>pharmaceuticals</strong>, <strong>semiconductors</strong> and <strong>lumber</strong>.”</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2025/aug/21/us-minimal-security-guarantees-ukraine-russia-diplomacy-europe-latest-updates-news">Continue reading...</a>