Defense budgets

The U.S. president has gone on the warpath against DEI and the alliance is falling into line, according to three people familiar with the matter.

The U.S. says operations will continue under Polish and NATO leadership.

The surprise announcement comes as the Defense Department prepares to lay off tens of thousands of civilians.

NATO’s boss insisted that the alliance “remains the cornerstone of European security,” despite worries about Trump.

France is determined to secure more advantageous fishing rights in return for a pact, officials say.

The program could make it more difficult for America to produce weapons — and keep allies.

America “is as active in NATO as ever, and some of this hysteria and hyperbole that I see … is unwarranted,” says Donald Trump’s top diplomat.

Trump’s envoy Marco Rubio faces European NATO allies amid tension over Greenland, Ukraine and the future of the alliance.

The country is splashing the cash on its military after years of austerity.

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European allies are increasingly worried about the U.S. commitment to NATO.

The push to boost defense spending clashes with Madrid’s struggle to ensure not “a single cent” is cut from social spending.

France, Italy and Spain are seeking to boost military spending based on grants rather than loans to avoid increasing their debt loads.

The bloc had aimed to send billions in military aid and artillery ammunition to Kyiv, but member countries split on the plan.

Bloc aims to build up military-industrial complex to deter Russia and brace for the U.S. shift away from Europe.

The U.S. president’s repeated attacks have raised worries about Washington’s reliability, but decades of dependence on American equipment has no quick fix. 

Time to get serious, says Foreign Minister Kęstutis Budrys.

Rating agency keeps negative outlook as “political deadlock and polarization” complicate the government’s effort to tackle debt.

Germany’s economic agenda is shifting from cars to defense as the United States retreats and Russia threatens.

The economy ministry is mulling leveraging the country’s Public Investment Bank to finance the industry, several officials told POLITICO.