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Europe Needs an Economic NATO | Opinion
Europe's economic sovereignty is at stake. Without a coordinated effort, it risks becoming a continent of good ideas but few ...
Russia’s European neighbors are lifting bans on landmines. Campaigners are horrified
They are considered one of the world’s most dangerous, and indiscriminate, weapons. Yet five European countries have turned ...
NATO's Rutte wants 2032 deadline for new defence spending goals, Dutch PM says
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has proposed that alliance members meet higher targets for defence spending by 2032, Dutch ...
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Europe Needs a New Way to Cooperate
SOPHIA BESCH is Senior Fellow in the Europe Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an Adjunct Lecturer at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.
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Europe Still Has No Plan for Its Massive Defense Boom
Most eyes are on the NATO summit in The Hague at the end of June, the first major meeting since U.S. President Donald Trump started Washington's swivel away from the continent. The European ...
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Trump's Trade War: More Trust With Europe and a Better NATO
With the United States focusing its trade war on China, this provides an opportunity for NATO and Congress to help transition ...
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Ischinger: Europe going it alone in Ukraine could be ‘the end of NATO as we know it’
A post-war European peacekeeping force in Ukraine without U.S. involvement could trigger “the de facto end of NATO,” a former top German diplomat warned. Wolfgang Ischinger, the former German ...
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Is Europe ready to defend itself? Four key charts that tell the story
The Trump administration has sent an unmistakable message to Europe: You’re on your own. In three dizzying months, the White House has reversed decades’ worth of American foreign policy ...
Europe Alone and in Shock on V-E Day
On the 80th anniversary of Nazi Germany’s defeat, echoes of tyrannies past shake a continent that is trying to find its ...
Dutch leader says NATO's chief insists allies should spend at least 3.5% of GDP on defense budgets
Dutch Prime Minister Dick Schoof says NATO’s chief wants the allies to agree to start spending at least 3.5% of GDP on their ...