Category: 3. Europe

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Donald Trump will never win the Nobel Peace prize. But he should be a strong contender for the Charlemagne prize — which…

Facing a possibly existential security challenge, Europe needs to ask swift questions and find immediate solutions. It may not be to everyone’s taste given a history of troubled relations, but the continent has an obvious solution…

EuroStack advocates see that the tide can be turned only with sustained investment, guaranteed government demand, and unified rules on transferring and securing data. 

Sebastiano Toffaletti, secretary-general of the Digital SME Alliance…

Europe’s imports of weapons made by the United States have skyrocketed in the past five years, raising serious questions about whether the continent can achieve its vaunted goal of defence autonomy.

New research released on Monday by the…

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European countries should “absolutely” be introducing conscription to combat the threat of Russian aggression, Latvian President Edgars Rinkēvičs said Sunday,…

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Almost two-thirds of the arms imported by European members of Nato over the past five years were produced by the US,…

Some of Europe’s biggest global health funders are slashing their aid budgets, which health groups fear could spell catastrophe for countries reliant on foreign cash to combat malaria, HIV, tuberculosis, andemerging threats.

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A longtime US ally has kept a deadly insurgency at bay, helped by squadrons of American-supplied military aircraft.

When US foreign policy abruptly changes, the aircraft remain — but contractors, spare parts and badly needed software updates…

Whether or not the United States now qualifies as Europe’s adversary, it’s clear that its postwar role as guarantor of Europe’s security is over. Friedrich Merz has already called for European strategic independence from…