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The European Union’s diplomatic chief Kaja Kallas said Saturday the continent was beefing up defence spending after “tough love” from the Trump administration, as she called for stronger ties to counter China’s “economic might”.

Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Monday that Germany along with Ukraine’s other key Western backers had lifted range restrictions on weapons they send to Kyiv to fight against Russia

In his first address to the Bundestag parliament on Wednesday, Chancellor Friedrich Merz vowed to rearm Germany so that the country would have the “strongest” military force in Europe.

NATO foreign ministers began meeting in Antalya, Turkey, on Wednesday as they rush to boost defence spending and satisfy U.S. President Donald Trump’s demand of a five percent GDP outlay.

The “end of history” is over and Europe is experiencing a “transatlantic crisis”, says Ursula von der Leyen.

The U.S. was wrong to neuter European power and create vassal states in the 1950s, Vice President JD Vance has said.

Greece signed a deal Monday to purchase anti-ship missiles from France as it seeks to bolster its defenses.

Britain snapped back at the EU after a top figure said ‘coalition of the willing’ talks failed to produce clarity on plans for Ukraine.

Subsea cables are vulnerable to sabotage with potentially devastating consequences and investment is needed, they say.

UK defense minister urged military leaders to press ahead with plans to deploy troops to Ukraine to police a peace agreement with Russia.

A ‘new Cold War’ is raging in the Atlantic Ocean with a threat to national security detected, a report claims to reveal. 

Secretary of State Marco Rubio told foreigners who may be “afraid” of visiting the U.S. amid ramped-up deportation efforts that they have “nothing to worry about” if they do not “join a Hamas protest” or “stir up conflict.”

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio asked allied foreign ministers gathered in Brussels on Thursday to increase their defense spending to five percent of their gross domestic products (GDP) – a very substantial increase for most members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and considerably more than the even the United States spends as a percentage of GDP.

Lithuania’s leaders joined thousands of people on Thursday to bid farewell to four American soldiers who died during a training exercise.

Poland charges 47-year-old Ukrainian citizen with working for Russian intelligence after he was discovered conducting reconnaissance.

A U.S. armored vehicle that went missing in Lithuania has been retrieved from a swamp after a six-day search but there is still no information about the fate of the four American soldiers who were on board, Lithuanian officials said Monday.

If you want peace, prepare for war. Germany appears to be embracing this ancient maxim with the country’s top general warning Monday that Berlin is ready to bring back conscription.

NATO clarified comments that suggested four U.S. soldiers who went missing while training in Lithuania had died, saying the search continued.

‘Coalition of the willing ‘leaders meeting in Paris to discuss supporting Ukraine but Moscow continues its bid to undermine these attempts.

Volodymyr Zelensky said on Wednesday evening that Ukraine will “never cede” the occupied territories to Russia while expressing doubts about the Trump-led efforts to bring peace and suggesting the President is naive about Vladimir Putin.

Supporters of the Make America Great Again movement have openly embraced the latest attempted smear from Europe, who, according to an article in The Atlantic, have dubbed them “Brutal Americans”.

Four Eastern European countries say they wish to withdraw from the Ottawa Treaty on landmines, citing “Russia’s aggression” and “dire security challenges” on NATO’s “vulnerable eastern flank”.

French President Emmanuel Macron seemingly sought to reduce expectations for the expected pan-European peacekeeping in Ukraine in the wake of a potential deal to end the war with Russia.

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is convening a second meeting of global leaders Saturday to discuss the developments regarding the war in Ukraine, following another frantic week of diplomacy aimed at getting Russia to back a 30-day ceasefire.

Burak Pehlivan, head of the Turkish-Ukrainian Business Association (TUID), said on Tuesday that Turkey opened more new business ventures in Ukraine last year than any other country, including the U.S. and China.

A common “European Defence Union” will be necessary to “deter” Russia in light of demands from the Trump administration that the bloc pays for its own defence, EU Chief Ursula von der Leyen said.

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned that Europe faces the prospect of “pulverization” if it does not increase defence spending, something she chronically failed to do during her time in office.

Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced a number of new initiatives to bolster defence in a speech in Warsaw, as European powers appear set to comply with U.S. President Donald Trump’s demands that the continent pay for its own protection rather than relying on America.

UK backs U.S. push for Europe to do more on defence, its government ministers have said as the defence secretaries of both nations met. 

Everyone asks can Europe endure Russian expansionism, but nobody asks whether Western civilisation can survive a nuclear armed Germany.

French President Emmanuel Macron said in an address to the nation on Wednesday evening that Europe should be prepared to defend itself and Ukraine without the help of the United States, a demand long made by President Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump has made clear he wants Europe to be less reliant on U.S. military backing and be more self-sufficient. The message appears to be finally getting through with a day of emergency summit talks Thursday planned to examine ways to build capabilities.

Chrystia Freeland, a leading candidate to replace Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the helm of the governing Labour Party, has suggested that Britain and France could be called on to provide a nuclear deterrent against the United States.

Commentators reacted with seething fury over a perceived insult against the British Army by Vice President JD Vance.

Left-wing pop star and former Kamala Harris campaign surrogate Lizzo says the left’s warnings about President Donald Trump starting Word War III have been vindicated by Elon Musk saying the U.S. should withdraw from the United Nations and NATO.