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Getty ImagesEuropean leaders are set to gather next week for an emergency summit on the war in Ukraine, in…

Political and investigations correspondent
Getty ImagesEuropean leaders are set to gather next week for an emergency summit on the war in Ukraine, in…
Paul B. Stares is the General John W. Vessey senior fellow for conflict prevention at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he directs the Center on Preventive Action. Michael O’Hanlon holds the Phil H. Knight chair in defense and…

“The threat that I worry the most about vis-à-vis Europe is not Russia. It’s not China, it’s not any other external actor. And what I worry about is the threat from within,” the vice president said. “The retreat of Europe from some…

Hello and happy Valentine’s Day from Munich, where SitRep spent the day at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof with hundreds of current and former world leaders, military officials, diplomats, and lawmakers during an action-packed first day of the…

After years of pressure, Poland has succeeded in getting 8,000 U.S. troops permanently stationed in the country.
That got Hegseth to again call Poland a “model ally.”
He said the “level of partnership is unmatched in Europe, the common…

European Parliament and European Council sources told CSIS that when writing the AI Act, their intention was that fine-tuning a model would not immediately trigger regulatory obligations. Indeed, the rules for GPAI models are intended…

President Donald Trump’s decision to freeze United States Agency for International Development (USAID) activities shocked European civil society organisations which relied on its funding, and…

The most productive countries in the world are in Western Europe, according to the Productivity Potential Index (PPI), created by global consulting firm Strategy& and the World Governments Summit….

A wave of discontent over rising supermarket prices has spread through the Balkans and beyond in the past weeks, intensifying pressure on governments to defend consumers.
At the latest meeting of EU agriculture ministers in Brussels on 27…

European defence ministers left their meeting in Brussels on February 12 in shock after the new US secretary of defence, Pete Hegseth, told them they could no longer rely on the US to guarantee their security.
Hegseth said he was there…