Europe needs to spend around 250 billion euros ($261.6 billion) annually in defence investments to secure itself without U.S. support, a sum the bloc could bear given its economic
February 21, 2025
French President Emmanuel Macron says he intends to tell U
February 21, 2025
Political and military leaders in Europe are fleshing out details of a plan for European forces to help ensure Moscow does not attack Ukraine again once the guns fall silent
February 21, 2025
Germany's conservative leader Friedrich Merz said on Thursday the U.S. was at risk of sliding into longer-term authoritarian instability, casting doubt on Washington's presence for
February 20, 2025
Why should a country want or need allies? President Donald Trump and his followers seem to disdain the idea. So did George Washington.
February 20, 2025
Russian President Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine three years ago has turned into Europe’s largest conflict since World War II
February 20, 2025
The Kremlin said on Thursday that any plan to send European troops to Ukraine as part of a potential peacekeeping mission would be unacceptable for Russia and that it was monitoring
February 20, 2025
Europe should wake up and build its own defence policy following a dramatic shift by the United States over Ukraine and geopolitical developments in recent months, Greek Prime
February 20, 2025
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Wednesday he and NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte discussed the importance of security guarantees for Kyiv in any discussion of a
February 19, 2025
As Trump’s attacks on Zelensky turn personal, there’s only one winner: Russia
February 19, 2025Denmark will increase its military budget by a combined 50 billion crowns ($6.99 billion) this year and next to address acute
February 19, 2025
Polish call centre worker Katarzyna Paprota, 48, says the dramatic shift in United States policy towards Russia and Ukraine
February 19, 2025
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov lauded U.S.
February 19, 2025
Faced with U.S. demands to provide the military muscle to enforce a future Ukraine peace deal, Europe finds itself in a bind.
February 18, 2025
Russia on Tuesday demanded NATO scrap its 2008 promise to one day give Ukraine membership of the U.S.-led NATO military alliance and
February 18, 2025
Poland's president said on Tuesday that U.S. officials had assured him that Washington did not intend to lower troop numbers in eastern Europe, as he gave a statement to reporters
February 18, 2025
France plans to a host a second meeting to discuss Ukraine and European security on Wednesday, but has this time invited European countries not present earlier this week and NATO ally
February 18, 2025The Kremlin said on Tuesday that Russian President Vladimir Putin was serious about negotiating a settlement to end the war in Ukraine as high-level talks began in Saudi Arabia, and
February 18, 2025
European leaders have insisted their governments must have a say in talks between the U.S. and Russia to end the war in Ukraine, as both Moscow and Washington said there was no role for Europe in the negotiations that could shape the future of the continent
February 17, 2025
European leaders meeting in Paris for emergency talks on Monday called for higher spending to ramp up the continent's defence
February 17, 2025
Barred from US-Russia talks on Ukraine, Europe scrambles for response with Paris summit
February 17, 2025
Keith Kellogg, U.S.
February 17, 2025
European and German fiscal rules would need to be reformed if higher defence spending was agreed among European partners, German Finance Minister Joerg Kukies said
February 17, 2025
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz wants to see a strong and sovereign Europe, he said on Monday, ahead of hastily arranged talks in Paris following signals that the United
February 17, 2025
French President Emmanuel Macron will host European leaders, including Britain's prime minister on Monday for an emergency summit on the Ukraine war after U.S.
February 16, 2025
Trump offers key concessions to Putin ahead of Ukraine peace talks in Saudi Arabia
February 17, 2025British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Sunday he was ready to send British troops to Ukraine as part of any postwar peacekeeping force as he tried to show
February 16, 2025
They should not have been surprised.
February 16, 2025
An isolated Europe worries the US will negotiate on Ukraine badly without it
February 16, 2025European countries will not create one unified army in response to threats from Russia, Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski said in an interview with state TV broadcast late
February 16, 2025
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said his country would work to ensure the U.S. and Europe remained together and that they should not allow divisions to
February 15, 2025
This was a disorienting week for those anxious over how the new Trump administration will fulfill Donald Trump's vow to end the Ukraine war.
February 14, 2025
A Czech-led initiative to supply Ukraine with large-calibre ammunition has delivered 1.6 million shells and will continue, Czech President Petr Pavel said on Saturday, a year after
February 15, 2025
Germany's defence minister said it was a mistake for U.S.
February 14, 2025
Zelensky warns days of guaranteed US support for Europe are over, as Kellogg says Europeans won’t be at table for peace talks
February 15, 2025
U.S.
February 15, 2025
Russia is relishing a series of contradictory White House messages on Ukraine
February 15, 2025European countries need to invest now in defence because it is not possible to assume that the United States' presence on the continent will last forever, U.S.
February 14, 2025
The European Commission will propose exempting defence from EU limits on government spending, the head of the EU executive, Ursula von der Leyen, said on
February 14, 2025
The credit ratings of Europe's NATO members are likely to suffer if they ramp up defence spending in line with U.S.
February 14, 2025
U.S.
February 14, 2025
A senior U.S. official on Thursday said the United States had not ruled out potential NATO membership for Ukraine or a negotiated return to its pre-2014 borders,
February 13, 2025
Increasingly alarmed that U.S. security priorities lie elsewhere, a group of European countries has been working on a plan to send troops to Ukraine to help enforce any future peace settlement with Russia
February 14, 2025
There must be no peace in Ukraine over the heads of Ukrainians and Europeans, German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Friday at the start of the Munich Security Conference
February 14, 2025
Britain remains committed to Ukraine being on "an irreversible path to NATO" membership, Prime Minister Keir Starmer told President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday, after the United
February 14, 2025
Ukrainians on Thursday worried that U.S.
February 13, 2025
Russian drone attacks damaged port infrastructure in southern Ukraine, officials said on Thursday, while neighbouring Moldova said two drones had blown up on its soil and NATO member
February 13, 2025U.S.
February 13, 2025
Russian officials and state media have taken a triumphant tone after President Donald Trump jettisoned three years of U.S. policy and announced he would likely meet soon with Russian President Vladimir Putin to negotiate a peace deal in the almost three-year-long war in Ukraine
February 13, 2025
Europe fears Trump-Putin ‘dirty deal’ as Ukraine scrambles for a seat at the table
February 13, 2025Estonia's navy is prepared to act against vessels that pose a danger to Baltic Sea infrastructure even if they are in international waters, a senior
February 13, 2025
U.S.
February 13, 2025
Ukraine could still become a NATO member in the future if it fulfils all conditions, Swedish Defence Minister Pal Jonson said on Thursday.
February 13, 2025
Ukraine and Europe should not be excluded from future peace talks on the Ukraine war, Kyiv's Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha told Le Monde newspaper in an interview released on
February 13, 2025
The German army's battle-readiness is less than when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, military officials, lawmakers and defence experts told Reuters.
February 13, 2025
Germany holds elections on February 23, with its army's battle-readiness less than when Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022 - a precarious position as Europe faces a new geopolitical era
February 13, 2025
European leaders warned the United States on Thursday against sealing a Ukraine peace deal with Russia behind their backs as they
February 13, 2025
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Thursday that any peace deal in Ukraine must be enduring and that any discussions must include Kyiv.
February 13, 2025
U.S.
February 13, 2025
By saying Ukraine’s NATO membership is “impractical” and the return of Russian-occupied territories to Kyiv is “unrealistic,” the Trump administration is giving its blessing to key items on President Vladimir Putin’s wish list — even before a potential settlement of the conflict
February 13, 2025
Donald Trump said both Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy expressed a
February 12, 2025
U.S.
February 12, 2025
Several NATO allies are insisting that Ukraine and Europe must not be cut out of any peace negotiations, after U.S. President Donald Trump signaled that he would hold talks soon with Russian President Vladimir Putin
February 13, 2025
US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ruled out NATO membership for Ukraine and said it is “unrealistic” to expect Ukraine’s borders to revert to their 2014 status before the annexation of Crimea.
February 12, 2025
US relations with Europe will never be the same after Trump’s call with Putin
February 13, 2025U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth's speech on Ukraine this week has thrown NATO into disarray
February 13, 2025
NATO allies scramble for direction as Trump team signals concessions to Moscow
February 12, 2025U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth says NATO membership for Ukraine is unrealistic
February 12, 2025
Hegseth rules out NATO membership for Ukraine and says Europe must be responsible for country’s security
February 12, 2025
President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said Ukraine would need the U.S. to help it build up an army as big as that of Russia to serve as a "Plan B" if his country is not admitted into the
February 12, 2025
U.S.
February 12, 2025
Hegseth expected to push NATO and EU to take more responsibility for Ukraine
February 11, 2025
U_S_ Vice President JD Vance has told a Paris summit on artificial intelligence that the Trump administration will “ensure that AI systems developed in America are free from ideological bias,” and that the U_S_ would “never restrict our citizens’ right to free speech.”
February 11, 2025
U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will become on Wednesday the first member of the new Trump administration to visit NATO
February 11, 2025
Former Prime Minister of Finland Sanna Marin will have a memoir out this fall, looking back on a momentous four years in office when she presided over her country’s joining NATO, its response to the pandemic and the enactment of legislation on climate change and social justice
February 10, 2025
Moscow is yet to receive a good offer to start talks on Ukraine, Russia's deputy foreign minister said in remarks published on Monday, after U.S.
February 10, 2025President Donald Trump’s national security adviser Mike Waltz says that top administration officials are traveling to Europe this week
February 09, 2025
The Associated Press has obtained audio of what military officials say is a broadcast from a Russian spy ship that suffered a fire and drifted uncontrolled off Syria's coast last month
February 07, 2025
U.S.
February 07, 2025
The main international forum for drumming up weapons and ammunition for Ukraine will for the first time meet under the auspices of a country other than the U.S. as uncertainty surrounds the future of Washington’s support for arming the war-torn country
February 07, 2025
Defence spending by NATO's European members and Canada was 20% higher in 2024 than the previous year, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said on Friday, ahead of a
February 07, 2025
Three NATO members still rely on Russia to manage their electricity grid. They’re about to pull the plug
February 07, 2025
Ukraine gets French Mirage fighter jets, more F-16s from the Netherlands
February 07, 2025
Russia welcomes U.S.
February 05, 2025
Belgium’s new Prime Minister Bart De Wever presented his government’s focus to parliament on Tuesday, highlighting stricter migration policies,
February 04, 2025
Former NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg, who became Norway's new finance minister on Tuesday, said engaging with the Trump administration on trade was key to avoiding
February 04, 2025
European Union leaders agreed on Monday to do more to bolster their defences against Russia and other threats by hiking spending and filling gaps in
February 03, 2025
British Prime Minister Keir Starmer told European Union leaders at a dinner on Monday that he wanted to work together to expand the continent's defences, including greater
February 02, 2025
Keir Starmer is heading to Brussels, becoming the first British prime minister to attend a European Union leaders’ meeting since the U.K. left the bloc five years ago
February 03, 2025
France rejected criticism from new U.S.
January 31, 2025
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda says that any peace settlement in Ukraine must involve Kyiv and come with more defense spending by regional countries to deter future Russian aggression
January 31, 2025
U.S.
January 30, 2025
The 23 EU members who also belong to NATO are likely to agree to raise the defence spending target above the current 2% of national output at a June summit of
January 30, 2025
In 2023, Mads Petersen, owner of Greenland-based startup Arctic Unmanned, sat in a car to keep warm while he tested a small drone
January 30, 2025
Western officials are warning that a growing dispute between Ukraine’s defense minister and the head of its procurement agency could undermine trust and disrupt weapons supplies
January 29, 2025
Shipping firms may need to pay a fee to use the Baltic Sea, one of the world's busiest shipping routes, in order to cover the high costs of protecting
January 29, 2025
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte and Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen agreed at a meeting on Tuesday that allies need to focus on strengthening defences in the Arctic, a
January 28, 2025
NATO said on Tuesday that acts of sabotage carried out across the military alliance over the past years included threats to plot the murder of industry leaders such as the head of
January 28, 2025
NATO is deploying eyes in the sky and on the Baltic Sea to protect cables and pipelines that stitch together the nine countries with shores on Baltic waters
January 28, 2025
Denmark boosts Arctic defense spending by $2 billion after Trump’s Greenland interest
January 27, 2025
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte urged member states of the alliance on Monday to step up defence spending beyond their common goal of 2% of
January 27, 2025
Current and former European and U.S. officials have raised concerns about some of President Donald Trump’s picks for top intelligence posts
January 27, 2025
An undersea fibre optic cable between Latvia and Sweden was damaged on Sunday, likely as a result of external influence, Latvia said,
January 26, 2025The top European Union military official, Robert Brieger, said it would make sense to station troops from EU countries in Greenland, according to an interview with Germany's Welt am
January 25, 2025
Trump’s policy on Ukrainian war may lack focus, but it’s an unexpected priority
January 24, 2025The Russian Embassy in London said that Russia posed no threat to undersea cables in Britain and other NATO countries, after UK defence minister John Healey accused Moscow of "
January 24, 2025
U.S.
January 23, 2025
Russian security official Sergei Shoigu warned in an interview published on Friday that the risk of an armed clash between nuclear powers was rising.
January 24, 2025
In his first three days, Trump disrupted America. Then he turned to the world
January 24, 2025Russia on Thursday rejected the idea of NATO countries sending peacekeeping troops to Ukraine in the event of a ceasefire in the war with Russia, saying such a move would threaten
January 23, 2025
Germany will eventually have to spend more than 2% of economic output on defence but must first reform its procurement system to get more bang for its buck, opposition leader
January 23, 2025
NATO is not involved in decisions taken by member states, such as the United States, over hiring in the armed forces based around diversity, equality and inclusion (DEI) criteria,
January 23, 2025
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte on Thursday urged the United States to keep supplying Ukraine with weapons to fight Russia's invasion and said he was sure
January 23, 2025
Two German Patriot air defence units deployed to southeastern Poland to protect a major hub for military and humanitarian supplies to Ukraine will be fully
January 23, 2025
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte has warned that a Russian victory over Ukraine would undermine the dissuasive force of the world’s biggest military alliance and could cost trillions of dollars to restore the organization's credibility
January 23, 2025
Britain said it monitored a Russian spy ship in the English Channel in recent days and would strengthen its response to secret operations by Russian ships and aircraft in an effort
January 22, 2025
Europe should welcome rather than rebuff U.S.
January 22, 2025
Spain is a "reliable partner" in NATO, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday, after U.S.
January 22, 2025
He hails a fantastic woman sweeping all before her in Europe. She praises a strong and shrewd defender of the West.
January 22, 2025
Russia is posing an existential threat to the European Union's security and to only way to address that is to increase spending on defence, EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas
January 22, 2025
The leader of Germany's conservative CDU, the party's candidate to run for chancellor, said on Tuesday that the nation should focus on efforts to reach existing
January 21, 2025
U.S. president Donald Trump has apparently confused Spain for a member of the BRICS bloc of developing economies, causing some head-scratching and jitters over possible tariffs in Madrid
January 21, 2025
French President Emmanuel Macron warned on Monday that the billions of euros of taxpayer money spent on Europe's military budgets should not be used to buy only American weapons,
January 20, 2025
Germany met NATO's target to spend 2% of its gross domestic product on defence in 2024, the government said on Monday, though well short of incoming U.S.
January 20, 2025
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