The speech by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos was an aggressive tirade in favor ...

Trump’s argument is different in two respects. The Sudetenland was adjacent to Germany, whereas Greenland is not adjacent to ...

Washington’s allies are looking for a new strategy after a week that has demonstrated what some see as the risks of ...

They now buy American weapons for Ukraine (which the Biden administration would have donated) under a NATO initiative known as the Prioritised Ukraine Requirements List (PURL). Europe has so far spent ...

EU countries can spend up to 35 per cent of the rearmament fund with UK defence companies thanks to a bilateral security ...

So it's peace for our time, after all. President Trump marched his ego to the top of the hill then marched it down again.

Here in Ireland we see water as an inconvenience or background noise... But in drought-affected regions of Africa, water is ...

“We need Greenland from the standpoint of national security,” President Donald Trump said on Jan. 5, “and Denmark is not going to be able to do it.” This was the icebreaker for a negotiation over ...

The world, after trying in vain to placate its predatory hegemon, now seems to have started the hard work of rebalancing.

ANALYSIS: The US president’s erratic campaign to acquire Greenland forces Europe to strategise for NATO’s demise, and Asia to think about the limits of American power.

In a video address delivered on 12 January 2026, former US ambassador Chas Freeman argues the post-war system of ...

France has a very long history of nuclear deterrence. The subject recurs regularly on the agenda, and allied countries could ...