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Political will alone will not be enough to bridge the gap between Europe and the US on security issues. Last Friday (10 June) in Brussels, Robert Gates delivered his last...

Europe can no longer free-ride on the back of US taxpayers, a lesson NATO's eastern member states should learn now. Defence spending in the new member states of NATO is...

Mugabe bends the rules to travel to the Vatican. Robert Mugabe, the president of Zimbabwe, made another trip to Europe last week, despite the ban on providing him with a...

A trip to Bratislava brings to the surface some of the principal undercurrents in central and eastern Europe. The Globsec security conference in Bratislava is carving out...

Ministers to discuss how to minimise the impact of cuts in national defence spending. Pooling and sharing military assets will be discussed by EU defence ministers next week...

Late-night discussions as leaders try to come up with wording dealing with EU-NATO relations. Strategic co-operation between the European Union and NATO remains blocked over...

Europe has failed NATO's existential test in Afghanistan, Smiles on stage but sighs behind the scenes will be the story of the NATO summit at Lisbon on 20 November....

NATO allies told all members must contribute. Hillary Clinton, the United States secretary of state, has warned the European members of NATO against making excessive cuts in...

Just possibly, EU defence ministers may have realised that only their personal engagement will ensure co-operation between their military staff. Can this really be true?...

Anders Fogh Rasmussen says measures are needed for closer EU-NATO co-operation. Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the secretary-general of NATO, has called on the European Union to...

Two-day meeting to focus on implications of the financial crisis for defence policies. Member states' defence ministers meet in Ghent today and tomorrow (23-24 September)...

Obama has dramatically improved security for Poland and the Baltic states. So why do they feel sidelined? The Riga Security Conference is Latvia's big annual shindig: this...

EU-US summit to take place in Lisbon on sidelines of NATO summit. Barack Obama, the US president, is to meet the leaders of the European Union in Lisbon in November on the...

Algirdas Brazauskas, a communist who led Lithuania out of the Soviet Union, has died aged 77. Lithuania's experience of Soviet rule was a little different to that of its...

The new US approach creates better opportunities for an effective NATO-wide system of missile defence. Russian President Dmitry Medvedev and US President Barack Obama will...

The ‘Country That Needs Help' should, finally, reach an agreement with the ‘Country That Can't Be Named'. In the headlines about Europe's economic woes, one country...

A woman who is hoping to change the image of NATO as a male-dominated workplace. Men only: for decades, that was the unwritten rule at NATO headquarters. But no more, says...

Under US pressure, Germany and others appear set to answer one of Europe's most fundamental security questions. In a crunch, would NATO stand by its weakest members – the...

Clumsy Russian tactics are boosting NATO in eastern Europe, and making the Kremlin look weak. In the 1990s, when enlarging NATO to take in the ex-communist countries still...

A new vision is needed to secure Europe, senior Russian, US and German political figures write. Twenty years ago, the fall of the Berlin Wall promised great hope that...