Category: 3. Europe

Hungary is known in the European Union for its opposition to Ukraine’s EU membership bid, its veto pledge threatening the opening of negotiation chapters for Kyiv.

Yet the Hungarian stance on enlargement represents a nuanced balancing act, as Prime Minister Viktor Orbán strongly supports…

Thursday’s summit in South Korea followed months of renewed tensions that have impeded trade between the two countries, despite several announced truces.

While Trump has ratcheted up tariffs on China — at one point as high as 145 percent — and tightened export controls on high-tech…

Friedrich Merz und Julia Klöckner haben es angekündigt: 2027 soll zum ersten Mal in der Geschichte der Bundesrepublik eine Bundespräsidentin gewählt werden. Doch wer könnte das sein? Gordon Repinski erklärt, wie sich die Union jetzt sortiert, warum Namen wie Karin Prien…

A U.K. government spokesperson said: “We are monitoring the situation closely and remain in touch with Dutch counterparts regarding actions taken in relation to Nexperia.” 

A spokesperson for Nexperia said: “Nexperia Manchester site continues to operate as usual,” and the measures…

The Romanian government is already a big customer of foreign weapons manufacturers, especially from the U.S., Israel and South Korea. It recently purchased American-made Patriot air defense systems and F-35 warplanes, as well as K9 self-propelled howitzers from South Korea’s Hanwha…

“My ideal situation is that people in Europe — all over Europe — understand that security is the foundation of everything,” Niinistö said, adding he “would like to see a change of mindset.”

For Niinistö, the challenge is not only political but psychological. Democracies, he…

However, Starmer’s government is yet to confirm that it will invest public money into the scheme.

According to three people familiar with discussions in government, Energy Secretary Ed Miliband, Climate Minister Katie White and Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy are all supportive, but…

To him, Europe’s mistake wasn’t being too soft on Moscow, it was being too hard. “Europe should finally sit down and talk with Russia,” he said.

Standing beside him, his co-chair Alice Weidel took the opposite view. Russia, she warned, could be “testing NATO’s air-defense…