EU lawmakers divided over resuming work on US trade deal after Greenland crisis
The European Parliament has put off until next week a decision on whether to resume work on the EU’s trade deal with the United States, which it had suspended ...
World order changing, not rupturing, finance chiefs say
The world order is changing but not enduring a rupture, finance leaders said on Friday, pushing back on Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s narrative that a new order, driven ...
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Trump tells Davos the US will not use force to gain Greenland, calls Denmark ungrateful
US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would not take over Greenland by force, but stuck firmly to his demands for control of the Danish territory during a speech ...
Greenland: Trump vs. NATO
After the Danish and Greenland foreign ministers came out of a meeting in Washington on 14 January convinced that Donald Trump really intended to seize Greenland, things moved very fast. Except ...
Trump links Greenland push to Nobel snub, refuses to rule out force while trade war looms
U.S. President Donald Trump has linked his drive to take control of Greenland to his failure to win the Nobel Peace Prize, saying he no longer thought “purely of ...
Our View: EU cannot continue to pander to Trump
President Donald Trump has never made a secret of his contempt for the EU and his Western allies. And now, with his plan to take over Greenland, he threatens to ...
Russia gleeful at Trump-Europe split over Greenland, but also has concerns
Russia is watching with glee as U.S. President Donald Trump’s drive to acquire Greenland widens splits with Europe even though his moves could have serious security ramifications for ...
Europeans send troops to Greenland as Trump presses claim
European countries sent small numbers of military personnel to Greenland on Thursday as Denmark said it was pressing on with plans for a “larger and more permanent” NATO presence to ...
Joining Nato ‘would be a natural development’ for Cyprus
Joining Nato “would be a natural development” for Cyprus, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Tuesday.
Speaking to French newspaper Le Figaro, he said that “if it were possible for Cyprus ...
Trump’s new strategy: how scared should we be?
President Trump’s National Security Strategy 2025 is a brief policy statement about a hugely controversial shift in US foreign policy away from the EU and Nato in favour of sovereign ...
Christodoulides proposes tradeoff with Turkey
President Nikos Christodoulides has proposed a tradeoff, where Cyprus would join Nato’s Partnership for Peace (PfP) programme in return for the resumption of Cyprus peace talks and Nicosia gradually ...
Putin does not want to restore USSR or attack Nato, the Kremlin says
The Kremlin said on Tuesday that European claims that Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted to restore the Soviet Union were wrong and that claims Putin plans to invade a Nato ...
Rubio plans to skip Nato meeting at key moment for Ukraine, sources say
US Secretary of State Marco Rubio plans to skip a meeting of Nato foreign ministers in Brussels next week, two US officials said, in a highly unusual absence of the ...
Baltic on the brink: Polish jets chase down second Russian spy plane in days
Polish MiG-29 fighter aircraft intercepted a Russian reconnaissance plane over the Baltic Sea on Thursday in the second such incident this week, Polish Defence Minister Wladyslaw Kosiniak-Kamysz said.
Poland’s ...
NATO says Russian incursions deterred but hybrid threats persist
Russia appears to have been deterred by NATO’s firm response last month to incursions into Polish and Estonian airspace, but Moscow is expected to continue testing boundaries, the U....
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Christodoulides: ‘I would apply to Nato if I knew they’d say yes’
President Nikos Christodoulides has said he would apply for Nato membership right away if he knew he would get a positive answer, but in the meantime preparations are being made ...
Christodoulides: Turkey must meet conditions to join EU’s Safe programme
President Nikos Christodoulides on Thursday said it is “up to Turkey” to meet the conditions set out om the European Union’s Security Action for Europe (Safe) defence procurement programme.
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Christodoulides and Nato chief discuss strengthening EU cooperation
The Cyprus issue and the need to further enhance cooperation between the European Union and Nato were the focus of a meeting between President Nikos Christodoulides and Nato secretary-general Mark ...
Romania plans defensive drone production with Ukraine to protect Nato’s east
Romania hopes to quickly set up production on its territory of defensive drones with Ukraine for domestic use as well as by European Union and Nato allies, Foreign Minister Oana ...
Hybrid warfare on Europe’s doorstep: Drones disrupt Danish airports and fighter jet base..again
Denmark said on Thursday that drone incursions that briefly shut two of its airports and affected military installations overnight were hybrid attacks intended to spread fear, but said it did ...
West, Russia clash at UN after incidents in Nato air space
Nato allies accused Russia at the United Nations on Monday of violating the alliance’s air space in Estonia and Poland – actions that Britain said risked triggering an armed conflict.
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The Air War: Plywood and styrofoam
“Nato is responding with unity and strength,” said British defence secretary John Healey. “If you’ve got drones that are putting Polish lives at risk, then Nato will take them ...
Estonia sounds alarm as 3 Russian MiGs breach NATO airspace
Three Russian military jets violated NATO member Estonia’s airspace for 12 minutes on Friday in an “unprecedentedly brazen” incursion, its government said, the latest in a series of recent military ...
Nato to beef up defence of Europe’s eastern flank after Poland shot down drones
Nato announced plans to beef up the defence of Europe’s eastern flank on Friday, two days after Poland shot down drones that had violated its airspace in the first ...