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    • Wednesday, 24 May, 2023
      Nathan Benaich
      European governments need to start taking defence innovation seriously

      Technologies that will protect democracy should not be outsourced

    • 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

    • 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

    • Thursday, 4 May, 2023
      Europe Express
      Why the EU’s latest defence idea will bend its own rules Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: ECB policy time; and who should police EU digital rules?

    • Wednesday, 3 May, 2023
      Brussels backs use of EU budget to fund arms factories

      Proposed defence package worth at least €500mn tests limits of treaty ban on direct weapons purchases

    • Tuesday, 2 May, 2023
      FT CollectionsWar in Ukraine: geopolitics
      Poland and Germany: the feud at the heart of Europe

      The west is trying to present a united front against Putin. But that is being undermined by tensions between Warsaw and Berlin

    • Thursday, 27 April, 2023
      News in-depthFinland
      Finland’s new normal: former military generals elected to parliament

      Russia’s war in Ukraine has shifted Helsinki’s decades-long neutrality with the focus now on Nato and foreign policy

    • Thursday, 27 April, 2023
      Europe Express
      The (significant) holes in the EU’s defence investment plans Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: a former Eurosceptic poised to take a Brussels pay cheque

    • Wednesday, 26 April, 2023
      Helen Thomas
      Threats to undersea cables should worry business as well as government

      Companies that rely on these networks have little understanding of the system’s resilience to attack

    • Wednesday, 26 April, 2023
      Aerospace & Defence
      Saab chief calls for state to ‘share risk’ in boosting defence supply chain

      Swedish defence company’s order intake more than doubled in first quarter

    • Sunday, 23 April, 2023
      News in-depthPoland
      ‘Who will pay the bill?’: Poland’s defence spending spree raises questions over funding

      Warsaw’s military expenditure set to reach 4% of GDP this year as autumn elections focus on resisting Russian aggression

    • Friday, 21 April, 2023
      Europe Express
      Why an EU arms deal for Ukraine has been hijacked by Brussels bickering Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: Luxembourg’s Asselborn proposes EU bailout of Tunisia

    • Wednesday, 19 April, 2023
      Germany
      Germany to upgrade 143 Puma infantry fighting vehicles

      Berlin seeks to boost under-equipped armed forces in response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

    • Sunday, 16 April, 2023
      Mujtaba Rahman
      The breakdown of French-German relations augurs ill for the EU

      Progress on enlargement, the budget and governance will be close to impossible without harmony between Paris and Berlin

    • Sunday, 2 April, 2023
      German politics
      German plan to expand armed forces ‘not achievable’, says top official

      Eva Högl, parliamentary commissioner, says ‘challenge for personnel is even greater than for equipment’

    • Tuesday, 28 March, 2023
      Janan Ganesh
      Western voters won’t give up the peace dividend

      Governments are right to increase defence spending, but their electorates prefer butter to guns

    • Monday, 27 March, 2023
      EU and UK ramp up talks on defence co-operation

      Northern Ireland deal paves way for dialogue on cyber security and counter-terrorism

    • Sunday, 26 March, 2023
      Aerospace & Defence
      European ammunition maker says plant expansion hit by energy-guzzling TikTok site

      Norwegian group Nammo blames ‘storage of cat videos’ for threatening its growth as data centre corners spare electricity

    • Sunday, 26 March, 2023
      Russian politics
      Putin plans to deploy tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus

      Russian president denies the move would violate Moscow’s non-proliferation obligations

    • Sunday, 26 March, 2023
      German politics
      German defence minister shoots to fame as country pivots on security

      Boris Pistorius described as someone who can ‘explain in minutes why it’s right to deliver weapons to Ukraine’

    • Wednesday, 22 March, 2023
      Europe Express
      The challenge of getting all Nato allies to spend more on defence Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: Dutch health minister calls for more funds to treat long Covid

    • Monday, 20 March, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      EU agrees to supply Ukraine with 1mn artillery rounds within a year

      German weapons maker Rheinmetall says more subsidies are needed to ramp up European production

    • Friday, 17 March, 2023
      War in Ukraine
      Turkey drops opposition to Finland’s bid to join Nato

      Move paves way for military alliance to expand its direct border with Russia

    • Wednesday, 15 March, 2023
      Europe Express
      Western officials to probe missing weapons promised to Ukraine Premium content

      Also in this newsletter: a crackdown on EU lawmakers’ sweet post-mandate deals

    • Tuesday, 14 March, 2023
      Deutsche Bundeswehr
      Germany’s military upgrade to take ‘half a century’ at current pace, says report

      Parliamentary commissioner for armed forces says sluggish procurement is hindering improvements

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