Tag: Eastern Europe

When Estonian President Alar Karis found himself sitting with U.S. President Donald Trump  during Pope Francis’s funeral at the Vatican earlier this year, the Russia-Ukraine war and Trump’s efforts to ...

The skies over Eastern Europe have become a testing ground for NATO’s resolve. In September 2025, three Russian MiG-31 fighter jets violated Estonian airspace for 12 minutes—an eternity in military ...

Russia’s intensifying incursions into European airspace are often described as acts of hybrid war. The implication is that while conventional war rages in Ukraine, with the Russian military directly targeting ...

Moldova’s pro-Western governing party gained a clear parliamentary majority in this weekend’s elections, choosing European alignment amid “unprecedented pressure, disinformation, and interference from the Kremlin.” Although the results advance Moldova’s ...

Welcome to a special pop-up edition of Foreign Policy’s Situation Report from the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), where we’ll be on the ground in New York City’s Turtle Bay ...

Splendidly dressed dancers moved about the stage swiftly in a colorful performance as nearly 30 world leaders looked gravely on. Gathered in Tianjin for the summit of the Shanghai Cooperation ...

After many decades of indecision and foot dragging, U.S. allies are finally rearming. At NATO’s annual summit in June, the bloc’s members committed to spending at least 5 percent of ...

U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin’s upcoming summit in Alaska this Friday represents a hopeful start to ending the war in Ukraine. But true peace will require ...

For the French political elite, this is a moment of scarcely concealed glee. The Trump administration’s deep hostility toward Europe—including the imposition of steep new tariffs, verbal attacks on European ...

President Donald Trump took office in January promising big changes to U.S. policy on Europe and NATO. Both the MAGA base and vehement Trump opponents agreed that this was likely ...