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CEOs feels a mix of worry and excitement that the world’s biggest space entrepreneur has a hotline to the president.

Finance ministers gathering in Warsaw will discuss tariffs and rearmament.

Chinese tech giant is at the center of Belgian investigation into wrongdoing.

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

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

Brussels sees America’s transatlantic trade surplus in services as its Achilles’ heel.

Targeting Big Tech could be among the EU’s options to hit Washington where it hurts, Belgium’s foreign minister says.

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.

Europe has to rely more on its own resources, the Commission chief said.

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. 

Polish President Andrzej Duda had called on the U.S. to station nuclear weapons in his country to deter Russian aggression.

The country’s defense ministry says that the Lockheed Martin F-35s “were not ruled out.”

Andrzej Duda said he discussed moving American nuclear weapons to Poland with U.S. president’s special envoy Keith Kellogg, but the idea is likely to antagonize Moscow.

15 countries are ready to move forward on security guarantees for Ukraine, France’s Lecornu said, without naming them.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan urged Russia to accept a ceasefire deal with Ukraine.

Belgium first called for a law to tackle drug shortages in May 2023.

Germany’s Bundeswehr remains atrophying and ill-equipped despite political leaders’ repeated vows to reverse the force’s decline.

BRUSSELS — EU governments should use the €150 billion in loans the Commission wants to borrow on markets to boost the bloc’s defense capacity to buy from …

The Critical Medicines Act is the EU’s attempt to tackle manufacturing dependencies on India and China.

The U.K. hopes teaming up with the U.S. on advanced tech might help avoid the president’s tariff wrath.

European NATO members have become even more dependent on U.S. weapons than before, according to a report by the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) released Monday. …

Already a major spender within NATO, Warsaw has massive military plans as fears grow about the reliability of the U.S. as an ally against Russia.