Category: 3. Europe

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France will consider extending the protection of its nuclear arsenal to its allies, French President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday, while warning that Europe…

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EU leaders gathered in Brussels on Thursday for a special council on defence, as France’s President Emmanuel Macron warned that the continent was at a “turning point of history”.

As well as rearmament, leaders are expected to discuss how the body…

The commission is proposing to loosen EU spending rules to allow governments to boost their military. According to von der Leyen, allowing countries to increase defense spending equivalent to 1.5 percent of gross domestic product over four…

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In that rare thing, an Angela Merkel statement that aged well, the long-serving German chancellor worried that Europe accounted…

European Commission President Ursula Von der Leyen’s new plan to “Rearm Europe” included close to no fresh money and left the burden of finding the real cash on member states’ shoulders.

Von der Leyen said on Tuesday morning that the EU…

BELFAST — As allies brace for the US to cut military funding for Ukraine, the European Union announced today a new €800 billion…

Europeans were barely getting their head around spending NATO’s official target of 2 percent of their GDP toward defense when U.S. President Donald Trump upped his ask to 5 percent. That caused some panic, but it was also easy to dismiss…

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen unveiled an unprecedented $840 billion plan to increase EU defense spending…