Category: 3. Europe

Life expectancy improvement is stalling across Europe with England experiencing the biggest slowdown. Experts are blaming this on an alarming mix of poor diet, mass inactivity and soaring obesity.

The average annual growth in life expectancy…

The continent’s defense, technological and industrial capacity should be strengthened quickly using the leverage of the European Union’s regulatory power and its enormous market. To drive this, governments will need to increase…

European leaders are reeling from a weekend of high-level diplomacy that has laid bare just how dramatically the second Trump administration is overhauling transatlantic relations.

Even before the reelection of U.S. President Donald Trump,…

European countries clashed over sending troops to Ukraine at a crisis meeting intended to reach a consensus on how to respond to US President Donald Trump’s peace talks with Russia.

As leaders convened in Paris for the summit on Monday…

China has launched a new round of diplomatic outreach to European countries amid rising tension between the United States and its European allies.

While top U.S. officials and European leaders clashed over issues…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s call for raising an “armed forces of Europe” is an acknowledgment that the continent may no longer be the beneficiary of security guarantees provided by the United States (US) since the end of World…

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…

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…