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  • Wednesday, 7 June, 2023
    Nato
    Nato plans show of strength with biggest ever air exercise

    German-led drill aims to display alliance’s ability to mount swift response against potential Russian aggression

  • Friday, 2 June, 2023
    Global InsightLeila Abboud
    Macron offers ‘strategic humility’ to woo Europe’s east

    The French president has laid a path to repair relations that frayed over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

  • Wednesday, 31 May, 2023
    War in Ukraine
    Macron backs Nato membership ‘path’ for Ukraine

    President of France shifts position on Kyiv’s aspirations to join military alliance

  • Wednesday, 31 May, 2023
    Europe Express
    Nato foreign ministers to debate Ukraine’s alliance accession Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Europe’s droughts and floods showcase urgency of green legislation

  • Wednesday, 24 May, 2023
    Nathan Benaich
    European governments need to start taking defence innovation seriously

    Technologies that will protect democracy should not be outsourced

  • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
    Ireland
    Ireland opens debate on future of military neutrality

    Ukraine war and security concerns prompt discussion about possibility of joining Nato

  • Monday, 15 May, 2023
    Europe Express
    Zelenskyy shores up support in visit to European capitals Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: why the EU parliament supports plans to mine lithium and other essential materials at home

  • Thursday, 4 May, 2023
    Europe Express
    Why the EU’s latest defence idea will bend its own rules Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: ECB policy time; and who should police EU digital rules?

  • Wednesday, 3 May, 2023
    Brussels backs use of EU budget to fund arms factories

    Proposed defence package worth at least €500mn tests limits of treaty ban on direct weapons purchases

  • Tuesday, 2 May, 2023
    FT CollectionsWar in Ukraine: geopolitics
    Poland and Germany: the feud at the heart of Europe

    The west is trying to present a united front against Putin. But that is being undermined by tensions between Warsaw and Berlin

  • Thursday, 27 April, 2023
    News in-depthFinland
    Finland’s new normal: former military generals elected to parliament

    Russia’s war in Ukraine has shifted Helsinki’s decades-long neutrality with the focus now on Nato and foreign policy

  • Thursday, 27 April, 2023
    Europe Express
    The (significant) holes in the EU’s defence investment plans Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: a former Eurosceptic poised to take a Brussels pay cheque

  • Wednesday, 26 April, 2023
    Helen Thomas
    Threats to undersea cables should worry business as well as government

    Companies that rely on these networks have little understanding of the system’s resilience to attack

  • Wednesday, 26 April, 2023
    Aerospace & Defence
    Saab chief calls for state to ‘share risk’ in boosting defence supply chain

    Swedish defence company’s order intake more than doubled in first quarter

  • Sunday, 23 April, 2023
    News in-depthPoland
    ‘Who will pay the bill?’: Poland’s defence spending spree raises questions over funding

    Warsaw’s military expenditure set to reach 4% of GDP this year as autumn elections focus on resisting Russian aggression

  • Friday, 21 April, 2023
    Europe Express
    Why an EU arms deal for Ukraine has been hijacked by Brussels bickering Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Luxembourg’s Asselborn proposes EU bailout of Tunisia

  • Wednesday, 19 April, 2023
    Germany
    Germany to upgrade 143 Puma infantry fighting vehicles

    Berlin seeks to boost under-equipped armed forces in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

  • Sunday, 16 April, 2023
    Mujtaba Rahman
    The breakdown of French-German relations augurs ill for the EU

    Progress on enlargement, the budget and governance will be close to impossible without harmony between Paris and Berlin

  • Sunday, 2 April, 2023
    German politics
    German plan to expand armed forces ‘not achievable’, says top official

    Eva Högl, parliamentary commissioner, says ‘challenge for personnel is even greater than for equipment’

  • Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
    Janan Ganesh
    Western voters won’t give up the peace dividend

    Governments are right to increase defence spending, but their electorates prefer butter to guns

  • Monday, 27 March, 2023
    EU and UK ramp up talks on defence co-operation

    Northern Ireland deal paves way for dialogue on cyber security and counter-terrorism

  • Sunday, 26 March, 2023
    Aerospace & Defence
    European ammunition maker says plant expansion hit by energy-guzzling TikTok site

    Norwegian group Nammo blames ‘storage of cat videos’ for threatening its growth as data centre corners spare electricity

  • Sunday, 26 March, 2023
    Russian politics
    Putin plans to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus

    Russian president denies the move would violate Moscow’s non-proliferation obligations

  • Sunday, 26 March, 2023
    German politics
    German defence minister shoots to fame as country pivots on security

    Boris Pistorius described as someone who can ‘explain in minutes why it’s right to deliver weapons to Ukraine’

  • Wednesday, 22 March, 2023
    Europe Express
    The challenge of getting all Nato allies to spend more on defence Premium content

    Also in this newsletter: Dutch health minister calls for more funds to treat long Covid

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