The 23 EU members who also belong to NATO are likely to agree to raise the defence spending target above the current 2% of national output at a June summit of the alliance that will set a new level, European Council President Antonio Costa said.
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nausėda says that any peace settlement in Ukraine must involve Kyiv and come with more defense spending by regional countries to deter future Russian aggression.
The European Union and NATO remain calm amid uncertainty regarding future US assistance to Ukraine. There is an understanding that Ukraine's financial capacity for 2025 is secured, stated the Deputy Prime Minister for European and Euro-Atlantic Integration of Ukraine,
The EU and Nato have taken a vow of silence over Greenland after Denmark requested its allies refrain from reacting to Donald Trump’s threats to seize the Arctic island.
NATO has started a process to share some of its highly classified capability targets — which determine what kind of weapons and equipment member countries need to produce — with the defense industry,
President also plans to ask for "financial contribution" for maintenance of remaining troops, European diplomatic source said.
Twenty-three EU nations are also members of NATO, which encourages allies to spend at least 2% of GDP on defense. Apart from leaving the world’s biggest trading bloc exposed, Kallas said, “Europe’s failure to invest in military capabilities also ...
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Nineteen European Union countries, including France and Germany, are calling for the European Investment Bank to boost lending for the defence industry as the 27-nation EU seeks ways to improve its military against a possible future Russian attack.
Slovakia’s pro-Russian prime minister has raised the prospect of his country leaving the European Union and Nato, arguing that world events could consign them to the “history books”.
Half of Poles believe Ukraine should not join NATO or the European Union until the issue of exhuming victims of the Volhynia massacre is resolved, according to a new IBRiS survey published by Rzeczpospolita.
European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas and U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio discussed the Ukraine war, Iran and China on Tuesday in their first phone call since the Trump administration took office on Jan.
He that even when a ceasefire is reached in Ukraine, ‘you cannot believe that the intentions of Russia will be just to stop and do nothing’.