US Pulls Back from Europe's Eastern Flank

The Trump administration cancels a troop deployment to Poland after ordering five thousand troops out of Germany, drawing bipartisan criticism in Washington. All forty-six Council of Europe members — the UK included — sign a declaration endorsing third-country asylum hubs. Ukraine's former chief of staff Andriy Yermak is arrested on corruption charges as thirty-six countries approve a special tribunal to prosecute Russia. And Eurovision arrives in Vienna under a cloud of political controversy, with Britain's most eccentric entry in years hoping to end a twenty-nine-year drought.