The Baltic Sea faces increasing threats to its underwater infrastructure, prompting Nordic-Baltic nations to explore legal and practical solutions to counter suspicious activities and protect vital cables and pipelines.

Hungary will be the one to decide whether Ukraine is able to achieve its hopes of joining the European Union in the future, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said Saturday in an escalation of his adversarial posture toward Hungary's war-ravaged neighbor.

Romania's pro-European coalition government survived a no-confidence vote in parliament on Friday, avoiding further political turbulence in the NATO and European Union member state which will rerun a presidential election this year.

As the re-elected US president threatened to slap 25 per cent tariffs on imports from the EU and demurred on security guarantees for Ukraine and Nato, our expert panel took FT subscribers’ questions on the following topics and more: Will EU countries shoulder more of their own defence and build up a co-ordinated defence industry as Trump eyes talks to end Russia’s war on Ukraine bypassing Ukraine?

By doing so, the United States is condoning Russia’s subversion of the postwar Europe that America helped create and secure. The parties Russia favors are hostile to the European Union, opposed to higher military spending and receptive to Russia’s arguments about the recklessness of NATO expansion and the need to assert right-wing Christian values.

February 24, 2025 marks the three-year anniversary of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine. Since then, the free nations of NATO and the European Union have rallied behind their fellow

French President Emmanuel Macron, left, greets NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte as he arrives for an informal meeting of leaders from key European Union nations and the United Kingdom at

Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov has made provocative statements regarding the ongoing Ukraine conflict, urging for a shift in diplomatic approaches. Lavrov emphasized that peace efforts should

The Romanian parliament adopted a bill on Wednesday allowing the army to shoot down drones illegally breaching Romanian airspace, based on threat levels and risks to human life and property. European Union and NATO state Romania,

Spain, Germany and Belgium would face the biggest public-finance hit among European Union countries if NATO raised its defense spending target by a percentage point, according to Scope Ratings.

German voters go to the polls Sunday to elect a new parliament that will determine how the country is run for the next four years. Europe's biggest economy is the 27-nation European Union's most populous nation and a leading member of NATO,