"We don't want to make [Russian President Vladimir] Putin any smarter than he already is," said NATO Secretary-General Mark ...

After the end of the Cold War, European military spending told a story of stability and optimism. Money flowed away from tanks and submarines and went instead to hospitals and pensions. But that ...

The 23 EU members who also belong to NATO are likely to agree to raise the defence spending target above the current 2% of ...

The prime minister’s Brexit reset plan is more ambitious and more practicable than his opponents would care to admit. Above ...

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More than half the Arctic's coastline is Russian territory and in the last six years Moscow has built more than 475 military ...

Costa has scheduled an informal meeting of European Union leaders next Monday ... Joint defence spending by the 23 EU countries in NATO already meets the 2% target after they increased it by ...

NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) is a military alliance of 32 countries, mostly from North America and Europe. It was formed in 1949 to protect its members from external threats.

Kaliningrad Oblast is a semi-enclave of the Russian Federation on the Baltic Sea, lying between Poland and Lithuania, and is ...

NATO is deploying eyes in the sky and on the Baltic Sea to protect cables and pipelines that stitch together the nine ...