Europe

Western governments’ rapidly growing defense spending sounds like a straightforward equation: More spending equals more weapons. But skilled weapons workers are in short supply, especially explosives experts, and without a...

The Biden administration sometimes refers to the need to build a “bridge” to NATO membership for Ukraine. It’s an apt metaphor—just not in the way its proponents might think. One...

New: Twenty-three out of 32 NATO members now meet the 2% of GDP target for defense spending, which is twice the number from just four years ago and the most...

BRUSSELS — Buckle up for the first Donald Trump-inspired EU presidency. Hungary unveiled “Make Europe Great Again” as the strapline for its upcoming six-month presidency of the Council of the EU,...

(Bloomberg) — Britain’s Liberal Democrat Party leader set out a path to rejoin the European Union’s single market, saying businesses need closer ties with the trading bloc to prosper. Ed...

(Bloomberg) — French and Swiss finance firms are more likely to have former politicians as board members than their European peers, underscoring the close links between policy making and the...

The Group of Seven member nations said China must do its part to “act responsibly” in the cyberspace domain and vowed to stop any damaging hacking activity linked to Beijing....

The paint has burned away from the missile launchers aboard the destroyer Laboon, one of the U.S. warships whose crew has just minutes or even seconds to respond to incoming...

Mark Boris Andrijanič was the first minister for digital transformation of the Republic of Slovenia. He’s a vice president at Kumo.AI, a member of the Governing Board of the European...

Police in Germany said officers opened fire on an ax-wielding suspect who put fans in jeopardy near a Euro 2024 fan parade in the city of Hamburg Sunday.  Hamburg Police...