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MELBOURNE, Australia – The Australian and New Zealand militaries were monitoring three Chinese warships moving unusually far south along Australia´s east coast on an unknown mission, officials said Thursday. The...

A former national security adviser to Donald Trump warned that the U.S. president’s proposed deal to end the war in Ukraine “comes pretty close to surrender” to Vladimir Putin’s objectives...

European officials were bracing for a more adversarial America ahead of the Munich Security Conference, a diplomatic gathering that has traditionally been a showcase for the Western alliance. Still, they...

Donald Trump’s statement that Kyiv “started” the war Russia launched on Ukraine has left Europeans dumbstruck, with one British government aide simply responding, “Jesus.” On Tuesday night, the U.S. president...

BRUSSELS — The Council of Europe’s human rights commissioner Michael O’Flaherty told POLITICO on Wednesday that the current political climate troubles him like never before. “I’ve worked in the field...

SMARDAN, Romania — members continued their largest combat exercises of 2025 on Wednesday, testing their ability to rapidly deploy large-scale forces on the 32-nation alliance’s eastern border as worries grow...

LONDON — Boris Johnson urged European leaders not to take Donald Trump’s blaming of the Ukrainians for their country’s own invasion too literally. Trump on Tuesday mocked Ukrainian President Volodymyr...

Guy Verhofstadt is a former MEP and president of European Movement International. Domènec Ruiz Devesa is a former MEP and president of the Union of European Federalists. Every cloud has...

BRUSSELS — European and other world leaders are planning to hold a second emergency summit in Paris on Wednesday as pressure grows to forge a cohesive response to Donald Trump’s...

A group of European leaders convened in Paris for an emergency meeting on Monday, still reeling from a weekend during which their long-standing ability to rely on the United States...