Pensioners walk in the Alameda del Tajo park in Ronda, Spain, in December 2024. Aging populations are a growing burden on Europe's welfare states. Europe’s generous welfare states are coming under ...

Low DAMP, Germany (Reuters) -Two European governments have agreed to buy underwater drones for military use, their German ...

While the two sides reached a broad agreement months ago, American officials visited Brussels this week to discuss the ...

Welcome to Wider Europe, RFE/RL's newsletter focusing on the key issues concerning the European Union, NATO, and other institutions and their relationships with the Western Balkans and Europe's ...

BRUSSELS, Belgium, September 21 (UNHCR) - Officials from the UN refugee agency and the European Union (EU) have strongly urged European countries to give priority to the quality of their asylum ...

“Poland must pursue the most advanced capabilities, including nuclear and modern unconventional weapons,” Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk told his country’s parliament earlier this month. “This is a ...

For decades, the United States had asked its NATO allies in Europe to do more for their own defense. And by the alliance’s 2024 summit in Washington, they had gotten the message. Twenty-three of ...

This white paper is part of the Project on the Future of Europe, a project from the CSIS Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program examining the European Union's growing geopolitical role and the ...

Europe has a lot of power. But it needs the willingness to wield it. The time is now. The United States is no longer a reliable partner for Germany and Europe. U.S. president Donald Trump calls ...

African countries have about a third of the world’s mineral resources but for decades they have been on the wrong side of ...

In a speech in Munich in February, U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris affirmed that Washington’s commitment to its NATO allies is “ironclad.” Now the Democratic presidential nominee, Harris is largely ...

Europe’s generous welfare states are coming under increasing strain as weak economic growth collides with rising demands on government budgets, particularly from aging populations. Donald Trump’s ...