Denmark’s Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen says a phone call with Donald Trump left her reassured that the US will continue to work with Europe on geopolitical issues after the president-elect takes office.

So what will the future Trump presidency mean for the continent? And in particular, for Ukraine? Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky is in the Hungarian capital for a meeting of the European Political Community.

Further compounding an already complicated situation, Germany — Europe’s troubled economic juggernaut — sank into political crisis after German Chancellor Olaf Scholz fired his finance minister. It raises the specter of an election in a few months and yet another standoff between the emboldened hard right and the establishment parties in Europe.