‘Europe will respond’ to repeated Russian drone incidents, von der Leyen vows - Drone panic gripped Lithuania on Wednesday as Vilnius shut down due to an airspace incursion, grounding flights and prompting the evacuation of top leaders
Jean-Claude Trichet: “We Need a Federal Union in Europe”. The former ECB president, honored in Strasbourg, makes a stark assessment: without political union, Europe will remain a vassal
The European Parliament has just created the European Order of Merit, the first honor of its kind. It will recognize those who helped defend and strengthen Europe. It has three classes of distinction
Polish officials head to US seeking clarity on halted troop deployment - Deputy Defense Ministers Cezary Tomczyk and Paweł Zalewski to hold talks at the Pentagon, State Department and with members of Congress aimed at clarifying Washington’s military plans in Europe
The E6 plan to take the next steps toward a capital markets union in Berlin at the end of May - The six largest EU economies aim to overcome political deadlocks regarding a capital markets union. The goal is to create a financial market modeled after the US system
German Greens Chairwoman Franziska Brantner gave a lecture in Oxford about the necessity of a European Army. We don't need to enter a race to know who will have the strongest army in Europe. Because those fragmented armies are useless. What we need is powerful collective defence
Vega-C rocket at Europe's Spaceport. Inside is the European-Chinese SMILE explorer, set to study how Earth responds to the Sun. Due for launch on 19 May
Germany’s spy agency picks French AI firm over Palantir - Germany’s domestic intelligence agency has picked a French AI firm over the US security giant Palantir, in a push to make Europe less reliant on American tech
Fragmented military spending delivers no security and only reinforces the dependency on the US. Which is why Trump is pushing it. It is an insult to the taxpayer. Further integration saves €3 trillion, almost four times the US defence budget. A European Army will make Europeans sovereign
Brazil ‘surprised’ by EU ban on meat imports - Brazil’s ambassador asked the EU Commission to put Brazil back on the list of countries complying with EU antimicrobial rules. The move comes as the Mercosur deal liberalising agricultural trade came into force on 1 May