Category: 3. Europe

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…

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…

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 Best Destinations asked more than 1.2 million travelers from 139 countries to vote for their favorite destinations, selecting…

LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Keir Starmer rallied his European counterparts Sunday to shore up their borders and throw their full weight behind Ukraine as he announced outlines of a plan to end…

European leaders warned that Europe will react “firmly and immediately” against the…

Where are U.S. bases and forces situated in Europe? 

U.S. forces have been stationed in and deployed to Europe since the end of World War II. Numbers have fluctuated since that time, reaching a high of roughly 475,000 active-duty personnel in…

A U.S. withdrawal would not only cost Ukraine about half its arms, it would also deprive the country of many of its “most effective” ones, according to Ben Barry, senior fellow for land warfare at IISS.

Some U.S. systems such as Abrams…