Romanians vote Sunday in one of the EU country’s most important elections in decades after the previous ballot was annulled following allegations of violations and Russian interference
May 03, 2025
Romanian hard-right politician George Simion, poised to win Sunday's presidential election first round re-run, said Russia is not a significant threat to NATO, and
May 02, 2025
NATO chief Mark Rutte has proposed alliance members boost defence spending to 3.5% of GDP and commit a further 1.5% to broader security-related
May 02, 2025
Romanians voted on Sunday for the first round of a closely contested presidential election.
April 30, 2025
Romanians vote on Sunday in a presidential election re-run that could propel ultranationalist George Simion to power, an outcome likely to cause unease in the
April 30, 2025
Spain and Portugal switched their power back on after the worst blackout in their history, though authorities offered little explanation for what had caused it or how they would
April 29, 2025
Former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev said on Tuesday that NATO's newer members are now potential targets for Moscow and at risk of possible revenge strikes using nuclear weapons
April 29, 2025
ATHENS -Greece will ask the European Commission to exempt its 2026 defence spending from the EU's budget rules as part of the so-called fiscal escape clause, its finance minister said on Tuesday.
April 29, 2025
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April 28, 2025
NATO can count on Berlin to step up its contribution to the defence of Europe as the Atlantic alliance faces a future more uncertain than 70 years ago when Germany became a member
April 28, 2025
Russia will continue to target sites used by Ukraine's military, Russia's foreign minister said in an interview broadcast on Sunday, as Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy
April 27, 2025
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April 25, 2025
Eurosceptic George Simion will get a second shot at becoming Romania's president on May 4, hoping to ride a wave of anger stirred by the cancellation of a December
April 25, 2025
Kyiv's delegation at a meeting with allies in London this week reaffirmed the principles on which talks on ending Russia's war in Ukraine are based, including never recognising any
April 25, 2025
A frustrated Trump privately concedes ending the Ukraine war has been harder than he thought
April 24, 2025
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said after talks with U.S.
April 24, 2025
A pro-European presidential contender in Romania's May 4 election has said defence spending should rise to 3.5% of GDP by 2030 from 2.5% and argued that maintaining
April 24, 2025
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte has called for European countries and Canada to make a "quantum leap" in boosting their contribution to the alliance.
April 24, 2025
Spain will meet NATO's target of spending 2% of gross domestic product on defence this year, much earlier than its previous self-imposed deadline of 2029, Prime Minister Pedro
April 22, 2025
The Kremlin said on Monday that the position of U.S.
April 21, 2025
Norway's Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Stoere and finance minister Jens Stoltenberg will meet with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington on Thursday, the prime minister's office said.
April 21, 2025
Italy will meet NATO's 2% of gross domestic product (GDP) target on defence spending this year through a series of accounting changes, Economy
April 17, 2025
The Dutch government aims to increase defence spending by an extra 1.1 billion euros ($1.3 billion) annually from this year, the leader of the VVD party - part of the ruling
April 16, 2025
Finland said on Wednesday it had decided to keep its eastern border against neighbouring Russia closed until further notice.
April 16, 2025
NATO's secretary-general says the alliance's support for Ukraine remains “unwavering.”
April 15, 2025
Europe must remove borrowing limits for defence spending or face the prospect of war with Russia, Lithuanian Defence Minister Dovile Sakaliene told Reuters on
April 15, 2025
Ukrainian, British, French and Turkish representatives will discuss Black Sea security in Turkey on Tuesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said.
April 15, 2025
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte visited the southern Ukrainian city of Odesa with President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Tuesday and declared "unwavering" support for Ukraine in the aftermath
April 15, 2025
Russia does not appear serious about seeking peace in Ukraine despite pressure from Washington, Italian Defence Minister Guido Crosetto told
April 15, 2025
Russia's foreign spy service chief, Sergei Naryshkin, said that the security services of Russia and Belarus were ready to act proactively, given what he said was increased
April 15, 2025
NATO members are discussing setting a spending target for civil defence and support for Ukraine on top of core military budget goals, Swedish Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said
April 14, 2025
U.S.
April 12, 2025
Romanian hard-right opposition leader George Simion, the favourite to win a presidential election re-run, said he is the only candidate who could stop a potential withdrawal of
April 12, 2025
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April 12, 2025
Ukraine’s European allies say Russian aggression is pushing peace out of reach, as US envoy meets Putin
April 11, 2025
Denmark's parliament on Friday took an important step towards ratifying a defence cooperation deal with the United States that expands
April 11, 2025
Bickering and chaos were on display in a presidential debate in Poland as eight candidates met to discuss existential matters for this country on NATO’s eastern flank — including fears of Russia over its war in Ukraine and concerns about President Donald Trump’s commitment to Europe’s security
April 11, 2025
European countries are vowing to sends billions of dollars in further funding to help Ukraine keep fighting Russia’s invasion
April 11, 2025
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday sought to position his country as a point of stability in an increasingly tumultuous world, saying Turkey was essential for European security and able to span geopolitical divisions over Ukraine, Syria and U
April 11, 2025
DELPHI - Greece is in talks to buy two used 'Bergamini' class frigates from Italy, Defense Minister Nikos Dendias said at a conference on Friday, as the NATO member seeks to modernise its armed forces
April 11, 2025
Britain’s defense minister is pressing his counterparts from around 30 countries to forge ahead with plans to deploy troops to Ukraine to police any future peace agreement with Russia
April 10, 2025
Ukraine will receive fresh military support worth 450 million pounds ($580 million), Britain said on Friday, as European allies attempt to strengthen the country's position ahead of
April 10, 2025
Defence ministers from some 30 countries met in Brussels on Thursday to discuss a "reassurance force" for Ukraine in the event of a
April 10, 2025
Republican and Democratic members of the House Armed Services Committee have voiced sharp bipartisan criticism about reports the Trump administration is eyeing a reduction of U.S. forces in Europe, saying America must stick with its NATO allies
April 08, 2025
Only President Donald Trump will make decisions about the future of U.S. troops in Europe, U.S.
April 09, 2025
Germany faces a "new unpredictability" in relations with the U.S. and will need to provide more military leadership given the unprecedented challenges of Russia's war in Ukraine,
April 09, 2025
Croatia plans to boost defence spending to 2.5% of GDP by 2027 and to 3% by 2030, it said on Tuesday, the latest European member of NATO to pledge higher military spending amid
April 08, 2025
Spain will spend an additional 2.08 billion euros ($2.28 billion) on defence this year by reallocating funds to Defence Ministry procurement contracts, the government said on
April 08, 2025
U.S.
April 07, 2025
U.S. officials say Navy Vice Adm. Shoshana Chatfield, the only woman on NATO’s military committee, was fired over the weekend by the Trump administration
April 07, 2025
Romanian presidential candidate Victor Ponta said on Monday he would stop Ukrainian grain exports via the country's Black Sea ports if elected to protect local
April 07, 2025
At a NATO foreign ministers summit in Brussels, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio responded to a reporter’s question about the impact of President Trump's recent tariff announcements on European markets.
April 04, 2025
Greenland's incoming prime minister said that talk of annexing the semi-autonomous Danish island was unacceptable on Friday, after the U.S.
April 04, 2025
Ukrainian officials say that a Russian missile strike Friday on the central city of Kryvyi Rih has killed at least 14 people, including six children, and injured more than 50
April 04, 2025
Rubio tells Russia the clock is ticking while allies doubt Putin wants peace in Ukraine
April 04, 2025
Turkey wants no confrontation with Israel in Syria, but repeated Israeli strikes on military facilities there are eroding the new government's ability to deter
April 04, 2025
NATO members Poland, Finland and all three Baltic states have queued up over the past few weeks to withdraw from the Ottawa Convention banning anti-personnel landmines, in the face
April 04, 2025
Romanian presidential candidates began campaigning on Friday for the rerun of an election canceled over accusations of Russian meddling, with Romania's role in NATO and the EU
April 04, 2025
European NATO allies and Canada say they will ramp up defense spending but are cool on U.S. demands for the size of their military budgets
April 04, 2025
Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan told Reuters on Friday that any potential peace agreement between Ukraine and Russia would be "difficult to digest" but would
April 04, 2025
The sweeping new U.S. tariffs announced by President Donald Trump do not violate NATO treaties, the military alliance's Secretary-General Mark Rutte said on Friday after meeting
April 04, 2025
The United States will know in a matter of weeks if Russia is serious about peace with Ukraine, U.S.
April 04, 2025
United States President Donald Trump remains committed to NATO's Article 5 on mutual defence and will be present at a NATO summit in The Hague in June, Polish Foreign Minister
April 04, 2025
Italy is considering including police and coastguard services in its defence budget so it can point to a quick increase in security spending as its
April 04, 2025
The ball regarding a Ukraine ceasefire is in the Russian court, NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said on Friday after meeting with NATO foreign ministers in Brussels.
April 04, 2025
Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen called on Thursday for increased Arctic defence collaboration with the United States during a visit to Greenland, and firmly
April 03, 2025
U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the Trump administration’s new envoy to NATO are seeking to reassure wary NATO members of the U.S. commitment to the alliance
April 03, 2025
U.S.
April 03, 2025
Hegseth expected to skip key meeting with allies on Ukraine support
April 03, 2025
The chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee criticized Pentagon “mid-level” leadership for what he says is a misguided plan to reduce the number of U.S. troops based in Europe
April 03, 2025
France or Britain should take the lead in engaging with Russia about Ukraine as part of European efforts to support Kyiv, Finland's president Alexander Stubb said on Thursday.
April 03, 2025
Poland wants to spend 5% of gross domestic product (GDP) on defence in 2026, Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said on Thursday after a European Union defence ministers
April 03, 2025
Thousands of people have turned out to bid farewell to four American soldiers who died during a training exercise in the Baltic nation
April 03, 2025
Secretary of State Marco Rubio is traveling this week to a gathering of top diplomats from NATO countries
April 02, 2025
NATO allies have pledged more than 20 billion euros ($21.65 billion) in military support for Ukraine in the first three months of the year, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte said
April 02, 2025
NATO member Norway will not withdraw from the global convention banning anti-personnel landmines as all the other European countries bordering Russia have done, the country's foreign
April 02, 2025
U.S. officials have told European allies they want them to keep buying American-made arms, amid recent moves by the
April 02, 2025
The Senate has confirmed Matt Whitaker as President Donald Trump’s U.S. ambassador to NATO
April 02, 2025
Spain will increase its defence spending to 2% of gross domestic product well before an original target date of 2029, but it is not setting any specific new
April 01, 2025
NATO member Finland plans to quit a global convention banning anti-personnel landmines and boost defence spending to at least 3% of GDP by 2029 in
April 01, 2025
The Kremlin said on Tuesday that President Vladimir Putin was open to the idea of restoring relations between Finland and Russia, which it accused Helsinki of reducing to "nearly
April 01, 2025
German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock said on Tuesday that the United States should not to be misled by any "stalling tactics" of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
April 01, 2025
Danish Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen is set to meet U.S.
April 01, 2025
Poland and the United States will sign an agreement worth nearly $2 billion for the delivery of logistical support for the Patriot air defence system, Poland's defence minister said
March 31, 2025
Finland's President Alexander Stubb said on Monday that he had not yet heard from anyone serious in the United States administration that the U.S. would withdraw from NATO.
March 31, 2025
Finnish President Alexander Stubb made a surprise trip on Saturday to meet with U.S.
March 29, 2025
U.S.
March 30, 2025
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March 30, 2025
Finland-based satellite operator ICEYE is to start providing imaging data to the Situation Centre at NATO headquarters in Brussels, the company said on Friday.
March 28, 2025
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin says that President Donald Trump’s push for control over Greenland wasn’t surprising given longtime U.S. interest in the mineral-rich territory
March 27, 2025
European efforts to create security arrangements for Ukraine are shifting from sending troops to other alternatives as they face
March 26, 2025
The Czech-led ammunition initiative to supply Ukraine can deliver at least as many shells in 2025 as it did last year, Prime Minister Petr Fiala said on Thursday following a Paris
March 27, 2025
NATO is clarifying comments that Secretary-General Mark Rutte made when he suggested that four U.S. soldiers who went missing while training in Lithuania had died, even though the U.S. Army said their fate was not yet confirmed
March 26, 2025
NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte warned the United States and Europe on Wednesday against any temptation to "go it alone" on security,
March 26, 2025
Bulgaria's parliament on Wednesday approved an $82.7 million purchase of Javelin anti-tank guided missiles from the United States to modernise the country's army and protect its
March 26, 2025
Sweden provisionally aims to raise defence spending to 3.5% of GDP by 2030, a bigger and faster ramp-up than previously planned as part of its
March 26, 2025
Spain, which has NATO's lowest defence spending as a share of its economy, will outline and start implementing a plan to boost the defence sector before the summer, Prime Minister
March 26, 2025
The commitment of NATO to defend Poland in any situation is crucial, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk told reporters in Warsaw after meeting the head of the pact Mark Rutte.
March 26, 2025
Norway's defence minister said he believes the United States remains committed to Europe's defence but the continent must take a bigger share of the costs of
March 25, 2025
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