Servicemen run during the Steadfast Dart 2025 exercise, involving some 10,000 troops in three different countries from nine nations, representing the largest NATO operation planned this year ...

Across Europe, leaders for years have promised to ramp up defense spending, though progress has been slow. NATO in 2014 set a target that each member dish out 2 percent of its GDP on defense by 2024.

For some leaders, the comments point in a clear direction: Europe will soon be on its own in Nato. Effectively, it may well be already. Speaking on Friday, Mr Merz told the German broadcaster ...

French President Emmanuel Macron warned that peace cannot mean the "surrender" of Ukraine. His warning came as he addressed a joint news conference at the White House with his American counterpart ...

The fast-moving developments prompted France's President Emmanuel Macron to convene select EU countries and the UK for emergency talks this week in Paris. NATO's new Allied Reaction Force ...

The US says European security is no longer its “primary focus”, demanding the rest of the NATO alliance spends considerably more on defence and Europe takes the lead in defending Ukraine.

The alliance has played a vital role in maintaining peace in Europe since then, largely thanks to the collective defense clause in Article 5 of NATO's founding charter, which essentially says an ...

Rutte, Pellegrini affirm Slovakia’s NATO, EU commitment; call for defence strategy rethink. BRATISLAVA - NATO chief Mark Rutte visited Slovakia on Thursday, meeting President Peter Pellegrini ...

We shall soon discover whether it also means the beginning of the end for NATO and the further destabilization of a Europe unwilling to defend itself, or a rebalancing in which a revitalized ...

In a direct response to European Union and NATO leaders, he criticized their vehement opposition to US-Russia talks, calling their reaction “unhealthy” and detrimental to peace efforts.

At the recently concluded Munich Security Conference, American officials delivered a message that was both familiar and ominous: Europe must ... than all of its NATO allies combined, yet European ...