By Elizabeth Howcroft, Supantha Mukherjee and Michael Kahn PARIS/STOCKHOLM/PRAGUE (Reuters) -As venture capital investors ...

Even if Russia were a direct threat to French national security, what good would an aircraft carrier do? F rench President ...

About 45% of the show will be dedicated to defense and security, a “strong increase” from the previous event in 2023, the ...

It is fair to say that the global tab for addressing the world’s acute humanitarian or ecological needs pales in comparison ...

Much like the EU's 17th package that was adopted on May 20, the new measures include blacklisting more individuals and ...

France is trying to shut out British arms firms from the EU’s defence industrial programme despite the post-Brexit reset.

While there is a growing consensus that new military spending ... than from Germany or France — duplicating efforts across the bloc. Europe already has some redundancy problems in defense.

April 5, 2025: Global defense spending reached $2.46 trillion in 2024 ... equipment shortages, maintenance issues and generally low readiness level. France was better off, at $41.2 billion, or 1.5 ...

Two problems immediately arise ... True, France is too close to Communist China. True, France has skimped on defense spending for too long, preferring to lecture America with Gaullist arrogance.

Johansson told BI that Sweden's boost in defense spending to 3.5% of GDP would still take "a couple of years" before it ...