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    • Monday, 25 September, 2023
      Nato
      Nato’s €1bn venture fund offers defence start-ups an alternative to China

      US-led military alliance to boost financial clout for companies from ‘multi-sovereign’ VC investors

      A Nato soldier with a computer during military exercises
    • Thursday, 21 September, 2023
      France and Germany back ‘milestone’ development in joint tank project

      MGCS plan would deliver modern combat systems as Ukraine conflict brings land warfare back to top of defence agenda

      Boris Pistorius and Sébastien Lecornu
    • Wednesday, 20 September, 2023
      EU economy
      Fiscal union would boost EU defence spending, says ECB’s Fabio Panetta

      Incoming Italian central bank chief echoes call to make bloc’s €800bn pandemic recovery fund a permanent facility

      Fabio Panetta
    • Sunday, 17 September, 2023
      Thales SA
      Thales chief on the lookout for acquisitions

      Even after the recent €4bn deal spree, Patrice Caine is keen to bolster operations including cyber security

      SAMP-T air defence system
    • Monday, 11 September, 2023
      Sweden
      Sweden to boost defence spending next year by almost 30%

      Stockholm rapidly increases budget to meet Nato’s 2% of GDP target

      Sweden’s defence minister Pål Jonson, pictured in June
    • Monday, 11 September, 2023
      Nato
      Nato to launch biggest military exercise since cold war

      Alliance plans to assemble 41,000 troops next year to test readiness to repel a Russian invasion

      Tanks on a training exercise
    • Sunday, 10 September, 2023
      German politics
      Top German defence official vows to speed up procurement in response to Ukraine war

      Annette Lehnigk-Emden says agency is pushing back against bureaucracy as part of security overhaul by Berlin

      Annette Lehnigk-Emden in Koblenz last month
    • Friday, 25 August, 2023
      Aerospace & Defence
      Boom in the woods: inside a munitions group’s fight to boost production

      Nammo’s challenges have included a battle with a TikTok data centre over available electricity

      An artillery demonstration
    • Tuesday, 8 August, 2023
      EU eastern tensions
      Germany offers to extend Patriot missile deployment to Poland

      Berlin responds to ‘security needs of our Polish friends’ despite heightened tensions with Warsaw

      Patriot air defence batteries near Zamość in Poland
    • Thursday, 20 July, 2023
      Europe Express
      The financial fight over a proposed €20bn EU fund for Ukraine’s army Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: Greece’s battle against wildfires

      A Ukrainian serviceman of the 59th Separate Motorised Infantry Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine prepares to fire a BM-21 Grad multiple launch rocket system towards Russian troops near a front line
    • Tuesday, 18 July, 2023
      Global InsightLeila Abboud
      Macron’s ‘bonsai army’ needs more money to grow

      France plans to boost defence spending by 40% but will not get many new capabilities

      Emmanuel Macron and Thierry Burkhard stand in the command car as they arrive on the Champs Elysee during the annual Bastille Day military parade
    • Tuesday, 11 July, 2023
      Nato
      Sweden poised to strengthen Nato’s northern defences

      Membership of alliance marks historic shift for non-aligned country, precipitated by Russia’s war against Ukraine

      Swedish soldiers pose for a photo as troops from Poland, the US, France and Sweden take part in a military exercise in Poland
    • Monday, 3 July, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Germany and Poland haggle over tank repair hub for Ukraine

      Berlin delays decision to extend stationing its Patriot missiles in neighbouring country

      Poland’s defence minister Mariusz Błaszczak and his German counterpart Boris Pistorius
    • Monday, 26 June, 2023
      Nato
      Germany plans ‘permanent’ force in Lithuania to strengthen Nato’s eastern flank

      Baltic states say turmoil in Russia heightens need to boost security

      Lithuanian defence minister Arvydas Anusauskas, Boris Pistorius, Jens Stolten with troops and military vehicles in the background
    • Monday, 19 June, 2023
      France summons allies in challenge to German-led air defence plan

      Emmanuel Macron convenes conference after Paris blindsided by Berlin-backed Sky Shield initiative

      Launcher of the Patriot
    • Wednesday, 14 June, 2023
      German politics
      Germany’s first-ever security strategy names Russia as ‘greatest threat’ to peace

      China also labelled as rival as Berlin outlines plan to make Bundeswehr the ‘cornerstone’ of European defence

      German foreign minister Annalena Baerbock and chancellor Olaf Scholz present their national security strategy on Wednesday
    • Wednesday, 14 June, 2023
      Europe Express
      Why Germany’s new security strategy matters for Europe’s defence Premium content
      Olaf Sholz
    • Monday, 12 June, 2023
      Baltic States
      Nato urged to boost Baltic defences against Russian threat

      Lithuanian foreign minister says his country is ‘vulnerable’ as Moscow prepares to deploy nuclear weapons nearby

      Gabrielius Landsbergis
    • Wednesday, 7 June, 2023
      Nato
      Nato plans show of strength with biggest ever air exercise

      German-led drill aims to display alliance’s ability to mount swift response against potential Russian aggression

      Jets at Hohn Air Force Base before taking part in the Air Defender 23 exercise
    • Friday, 2 June, 2023
      Global InsightLeila Abboud
      Macron offers ‘strategic humility’ to woo Europe’s east

      The French president has laid a path to repair relations that frayed over Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

    • Wednesday, 31 May, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Macron backs Nato membership ‘path’ for Ukraine

      President of France shifts position on Kyiv’s aspirations to join military alliance

      Emmanuel Macron
    • Wednesday, 31 May, 2023
      Europe Express
      Nato foreign ministers to debate Ukraine’s alliance accession Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: Europe’s droughts and floods showcase urgency of green legislation

      Norway’s Foreign Minister Anniken Huitfeldt (R) reacts as she irons a NATO flag at the Town Hall in Oslo, Norway, on May 30, prior of the NATO foreign ministers’ meeting of June 1, 2023.
    • Wednesday, 24 May, 2023
      Nathan Benaich
      European governments need to start taking defence innovation seriously

      Technologies that will protect democracy should not be outsourced

      Drone footage released by the Ukrainian Army shows an attack on a Russian tank column in Kyiv, March 2022
    • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
      Ireland
      Ireland opens debate on future of military neutrality

      Ukraine war and security concerns prompt discussion about possibility of joining Nato

      Ireland foreign minister Micheál Martin in Irpin, Ukraine, last year
    • Monday, 15 May, 2023
      Europe Express
      Zelenskyy shores up support in visit to European capitals Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: why the EU parliament supports plans to mine lithium and other essential materials at home

      Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy smiles during a media conference at the chancellery in Berlin
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