PARIS — Europe can build up most of the critical defense enablers needed to deter or defeat Russia without U.S. support within five years, provided the political will to invest is there, according to security researchers and experts surveyed by…
Category: 3. Europe
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U.S. Votes Against U.N. Resolution Demanding Russian Withdrawal from Ukraine
A showdown over Ukraine between the United States and its longtime European allies played out in the United Nations on Monday, as the United States opposed an effort to condemn Russian aggression and call for the immediate withdrawal of Russian…
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Germany’s Friedrich Merz signals seismic shift in Europe-US relations
Big European powers have been shocked to the core by the Trump administration, which suggests it could revoke the security guarantees to Europe in place since 1945.
“I would never have thought that I would have to say something like this in a TV…
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Central Europe’s new hop-on hop-off train
Getty ImagesThe Baltic Express bursts out of the Czech capital on a crisp winter morning. As the sky lightens, medieval Prague is streamed through the train’s windows like a Netflix trailer. From armchair seats in private compartments, a city of…
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Europe’s big carnivores are on the rise – but can we live with bears next door? | Wildlife
Europe’s carnivores have had a remarkable change in fortune. After tens of thousands of years of persecution that wiped out sabretooth tigers, hyenas and cave lions, there has been a recent rebound in the continent’s surviving predators.
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The UN Must Act to Bring Peace to Europe
President Trump is committed to ending the Russia-Ukraine war and to a resolution that leads to a lasting peace, not just a temporary pause. This Monday, February 24, will mark three years of…
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Yes, America Is Europe’s Enemy Now
A few weeks ago, I warned that the second Trump administration might be squandering the tolerance and good will that Washington had long received from the world’s major democracies. Instead of seeing the United States as a mostly…
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Double speed: What Merz and a German right-turn would mean for Europe
Two things will alter Europe’s political future. First is the rise of the right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) and the high likelihood of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU)’s Friedrich Merz as the…
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Life expectancy growth stalls across Europe as England sees sharpest decline, say researchers | Life expectancy
Life expectancy improvement is stalling across Europe with England experiencing the biggest slowdown. Experts are blaming this on an alarming mix of poor diet, mass inactivity and soaring obesity.
The average annual growth in life expectancy…
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