If Trump pulled the US out of the alliance, the European allies would no longer follow Washington’s lead on foreign policy.

Europe needs greater collective leadership, pragmatism and rapid decision-making to remain a relevant force in the 21st ...

As EU leaders commit to accelerating their spending on defence and to brace for conflict with Russia, is the French president also risking a rift with the UK, asks Mary Dejevsky ...

None of those is easy. By Steven Erlanger Reporting from Berlin. Steven Erlanger has written about Europe, Russia and NATO for many years. President Trump has never had much love for the NATO ...

Although NATO has survived - and even thrived - for over 75 years, its future looks more uncertain now than at perhaps any other time. The Alliance confronts ...

Uneasiness grows over continued U.S. support for the 75-year-old alliance as Trump casts doubt on support from other members ...

The current NATO threshold stands at two, and several countries still fall short of this. Germany—Europe's largest economy—has only just dragged itself over this marker, although the smaller ...

But the future of Nato and the reliability of America ... There will be a considerable overlap. Yet for very good reasons, the EU cannot fully control it. Two essential members, Norway and the ...

European leaders have vowed to rearm the continent at historic emergency talks held after the United States threatened to rip ...

There already appears to be a convenient overlap between the American ... that Ukraine will not become a member of NATO or, likely, the European Union either, which is what Ukraine has been ...