Category: 3. Europe

Defense beat: Europe Won’t Pay Its NATO Share

President Trump’s call for Europe to pay 5% of GDP for its defense has been much “ballyhooed,” notes Gerard Baker at The Wall Street Journal, but the “math agreed to by all…

Spain had dominated possession, but they had struggled to break through a resilient defence in Zurich as Christian Wuck’s side dug deep to force extra time.

But with the game looking destined for a penalty shootout, Bonmati stepped up when it mattered – sending Spain to their first Women’s Euro…

European metals traders are engaged in an increasingly frantic scramble to secure rare-earth metal supplies after it became all but impossible to directly source them from China.

While defense manufacturers say they can rely on stockpiling and…

Meanwhile, efforts have been foiled to secure a Bilateral Investment Treaty, a pact that would give firms the right to sue governments over policy changes they claim would harm their investments, through a mechanism known as an Investor-State Dispute Settlement (ISDS). 

Negotiators had…

Washington and Beijing’s bitter trade spat over rare earths—the powerful elements that are crucial to defense and other advanced technologies—has left vulnerable European leaders worried that they could be next. 

Decades of…

Earlier this year, European leaders agreed that the E.U. must be “fully capable of defending itself against a Russian attack by 2030.” NATO has more than doubled its defense spending target to 5 percent of GDP by 2035. But Western…

As Europe races toward a U.S. trade deal, lobbyists for America’s biggest natural gas exporters are pushing to carve a major loophole in the EU’s methane rules, using ongoing trade and tariff disputes in a campaign to weaken Europe’s…

“We heard what people are saying these days, what people are saying on social networks, to each other, on the streets. All this is not in vain. We have analyzed all the concerns, all the aspects of what should be changed,” Zelenskyy said in a video address on Wednesday evening, as…