Category: 3. Europe

BRUSSELS – Not a single member state has answered the Commission’s offer to bend its stringent budget rules and ramp up defence spending – and the deadline is five days away.

Activating the so-called “national escape clause” would…

Volker Wissing, geschäftsführender Bundesminister für Digitales und Verkehr und für Justiz, spricht über die Stunden des Koalitionsbruchs am 6. November, seine Entscheidung, im Amt zu bleiben – und über die Frage, warum die FDP aus seiner Sicht an sich selbst…

The chancellor’s comments, made during a three-day visit to the U.S. capital for the International Monetary Fund’s Spring talks, shed more light on the areas the British government is targeting as it tries to land a deal with Donald Trump’s administration.

They came ahead of a…

“I am sure that there will be some reduction of U.S. presence in Europe,” said retired Lt. Gen. Ben Hodges, a former commander of U.S. Army Europe.

Estimates of the number of U.S. forces in Europe range from 70,000 permanent troops to 90,000. But all estimates show a marked decrease from…

Growing pressure

The EU’s executive has been under heavy pressure to respond to Hungary’s Pride ban, particularly on the use of facial recognition.

The EU moved in February to prohibit police forces from using real-time facial recognition technology under its artificial intelligence…

In an emailed statement, the IEA said: “The IEA Secretariat’s current programme of work is based on the mandates from our Member countries, as agreed at our last Ministerial in February 2024. The IEA Secretariat will continue to take into account feedback from all 32 Member countries on…

The world just witnessed an example of a White House circle of praise when Italian Prime Minister and woman who will only sing the national anthem at the karaoke bar, Giorgia Meloni met with toddler-in-chief about to throw a tantrum Donald Trump.

The two could not be more in tune on all…