The European Union is a major economic and political entity. Its purpose and longstanding ambition has been the expansion—ideally to encompass all countries of the European continent—as well as its political and constitutional integration; in other words, the formation of a large and functional federation of states. Over the years, the Union has drifted into a state of inertia, failing to perceive the profound global developments unfolding around it.

“Significant barriers to effective military mobility in the EU persist,” says a communication due to be announced on Wednesday. The EU and NATO are scrambling to make it easier to shift troops, weapons, ammunition and fuel from Western Europe to the front lines of a potential conflict with Russia in the east. | Daniel Mihailescu/AFP via Getty Images November 18, 2025 4:49 pm CETBy…

29.09.202514:05 Η ηγεσία του στρατού πιέζουν τις εταιρείες άμυνας να επιταχύνουν και να αυξήσουν τη συναρμολόγηση 12 κρίσιμων όπλων Το Πεντάγωνο ανησυχεί για τα χαμηλά αποθέματα όπλων που θα έχουν οι ΗΠΑ σε περίπτωση μιας σύγκρουσης με την Κίνα και προτρέπει τους προμηθευτές πυραύλων του να διπλασιάσουν ή και να τετραπλασιάσουν τους ρυθμούς παραγωγής, δίνοντας μάλιστα ένα εξαιρετικά σφιχτό χρονοδιάγραμμα.

Forget the US president’s seeming volte-face on Ukraine this week: he and Putin fundamentally agree that European liberal democracy is the problem Sun 28 Sep 2025 09.00 CEST For many people in eastern Europe, August 1939 may not feel that long ago. That was the moment Hitler’s Germany and Stalin’s Soviet Union secretly agreed to partition Poland and forcibly subsume the sovereign Baltic republics and Finland into their totalitarian “spheres of influence”.

Russia could be able to attack NATO territory by 2029, warn German Defense Minister Pistorius and senior military officials. But where does this forecast come from and what information is it based on? By Florian Flade, WDR It is June 5, 2024. The government questioning will take place in the plenary hall of the German Bundestag. At some point, it will be the turn of Defense Minister Boris Pistorius.

The fighting in Ukraine is only part of Russia’s wider war against the continent as a whole. It’s high time to recognize this reality and act accordingly. The only way Moscow can now achieve its objectives is by weakening Europe’s support for Ukraine and exploiting divisions within and among NATO nations. | Diego Herrera Carcedo/Anadolu via Getty Images From Across the PondSeptember 25, 2025 4:01 am CETBy…

What we are living through today—both as a nation and as Europe, or rather as a Union—is marked by tragic uncertainty and insecurity. We witness the impending march of the new barbarians, their seemingly inevitable triumph over the last remaining free societies, and we find ourselves stunned into paralysis. Across the West, leaders drift toward the political extremes—not to defend the values upon which the Union was founded, values of liberty and human dignity, but to preserve their own vanity.

Dmitry Peskov said this "doesn’t need any additional confirmation" Russian Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov © Sergey Bobylev/POOL/TASS MOSCOW, September 15. /TASS/. NATO is de facto at war with Russia, Presidential Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Monday, reacting to a recent statement by Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski that NATO was not at war with Russia. "NATO is at war with Russia," Peskov said at a news briefing.

President tells Fox News ‘the radicals on the left are the problem’ and refuses to seek common way forward  Ed PilkingtonFri 12 Sep 2025 22.12 CESTShare Donald Trump has declined to call for the US to come together as a way of fixing the country’s divisions in the wake of the assassination of his close associate, the rightwing activist…

In statement Friday, Erika Kirk says ‘evildoers responsible for my husband’s assassination have no idea what they have done’ Johana BhuiyanSat 13 Sep 2025 07.59 CEST Erika Kirk, the widow of rightwing activist and provocateur Charlie Kirk, said in a statement Friday evening that her late husband’s message and mission will be “stronger, bolder, louder and greater than ever” and that her “cries will echo around the world like a battle cry”.

By Alan Charlish, Lidia Kelly and Barbara ErlingSeptember 11, 202512:41 AM GMT+3Updated September 11, 2025 WARSAW/WYRYKI-WOLA, Poland, Sept 10 (Reuters) - Poland shot down suspected Russian drones in its airspace on Wednesday with the backing of aircraft from its NATO allies, the first time a member of the Western military alliance is known to have fired shots during…

By Artur Weigandt Vladimir Putin (left) and Donald Trump at their meeting in Alaska in mid-AugustSource: REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque The Russian ex-diplomat and Putin critic Boris Bondarev knows the Moscow regime from the inside. He accuses the Europeans, but also US President Trump, of gullibility towards the Kremlin chief. He always succeeds in leading the West around by the nose. DisplayBoris Bondarev was a diplomat in the Russian Foreign Ministry for almost 20 years, most recently as an adviser to the Permanent Mission of Russia to the United Nations in Geneva.

SCO has an even greater responsibility amid the rise of ‘unpredictable factors’, Chinese president tells regional leaders in Tianjin Dewey Simin Tianjin Published: 12:49pm, 31 Aug 2025|Updated: 9:26pm, 31 Aug 2025President Xi Jinping on Sunday called for the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO) to play a bigger role in protecting regional peace and stability, as he held up China as a stable power that will champion the developing world.

“Diplomacy isn’t about flipping a switch overnight and then everything will be fine again,” the chancellor said in an interview. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said he is mentally preparing for a long war in Ukraine. | Pool Photo by Manon Cruz via EPA August 31, 2025 9:05 pm CETBy Nette Nöstlinger BERLIN — German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said he is mentally preparing for a long war in Ukraine — but wouldn’t be drawn on whether Berlin will deploy peacekeeping troops should there be a ceasefire.

Donald Trump is using America’s military and technological superiority to force one-sided deals on Europe. Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images August 26, 2025 7:55 pm CETBy Antonia Zimmermann BRUSSELS — After its defeat by the British in the First Opium War, the Qing dynasty signed a treaty in 1842 that condemned China to more than 100 years of foreign oppression and colonial control of trade policy.

by Stewart Patrick Published on August 21, 2025 On August 15, U.S. President Donald Trump welcomed onto American soil the premier dictator of the age, Russian President Vladimir Putin. Trump uttered no words of criticism about his ruthless guest, the mastermind of the illegal invasion of and atrocities committed in Ukraine. Instead, the U.S. president pledged diplomatic support for an eventual peace settlement that would legitimize Russia’s naked aggression against and…

Vladimir Putin’s desire to grab Ukraine’s key defensive lines echoes how Adolf Hitler secured Czechoslovakia’s fortifications.

Σημαντική αναβάθμιση και διεύρυνση της στρατιωτικής παρουσίας της Τουρκίας στην κατεχόμενη Βόρεια Κύπρο καταγράφει ο τουρκικός Τύπος, προκαλώντας έντονο ενδιαφέρον και ανησυχία τόσο στην Λευκωσία όσο και στην Αθήνα. Aναβάθμιση της ηγεσίας Η εθνικιστική εφημερίδα Aydınlık αναφέρει ότι η «Διοίκηση των Τουρκικών Ειρηνευτικών Δυνάμεων της Κύπρου» αναβαθμίστηκε , για πρώτη φορά , από επίπεδο Υποστράτηγου σε Αντιστράτηγο. Πηγές αναφέρουν ότι ο Υποστράτηγος Sebahattin Kılınç, διορισμένος τον Αύγουστο του 2023, …

Despite the hype, much of Ankara’s new military technology remains in development and untested.

Examples from non-Western history offer more promising precedents for the end of U.S. hegemony. By Amitav Acharya, a distinguished professor at the School of International Studies at American University. Two world leaders speak underneath a replica of a clay treaty. As the era of U.S. primacy comes to an end, academics and policymakers have quite naturally been debating what comes next.

 In 2027, the PLA will celebrate the 100th anniversary of its founding. It is also the year by which Xi expects China’s armed forces to have made significant strides in their modernization. Finally, the year is noteworthy because, according to former CIA Director Bill Burns, Xi has instructed the PLA to be “ready by 2027 to conduct a successful invasion” of Taiwan.

Published on : 1 July 2025 by Marcel Burger The Royal Norwegian Air Force (RNoAF) is to expand its biggest airbase – Ørland near Trondheim – substantially. An equivalent of 210 football fields of land is to be added to the base, which is the main combat base for the stealthy Lockheed F-35A Lightning II fighter jet of the RNoAF (Luftforsvaret).

By GIEDRĖ PESECKYTĖ Illustration by Wayne Brezinka for POLITICO Speeding along Fabriko Street in an ambulance toward Lietavos school, Martyna Veronika Noreikaitė felt unprepared. She could feel her heart pounding. It was a sunny Tuesday morning in mid-May when Noreikaitė was radioed about an explosion in Jonava, a city of 30,000 people in central Lithuania. In her three years as a paramedic, her calls would, on a normal day, involve high blood pressure or chest pains.