NATO's new 5 percent defence spending target marks a historic rupture--signalling the rise of the security state, the eclipse ...

But whether more defence spending will compensate for the relative decline in European manufacturing and help preserve ...

Timothy Garton Ash on the shocks that fuelled a populist challenge — and how the liberal centre could yet hold ...

Yet many welfare states have been built the world over without an ideology of national security following in their wake.

IN THESE days of waning US-centric investment, some investors are betting that US President Donald Trump’s tariff rhetoric ...

With the new Polish president, nationalist Karol Nawrocki, European Trump supporters, led by Viktor Orbán, have gained an ...

German leaders intend to ramp up defense spending and build the most powerful armed forces in Europe, but shadows of World ...

In total, Germany plans to spend €649 billion ($761 billion) on the military over the coming five years. It marks a ...

A new Trump presidency and the Ukraine war have pushed Germany to change its constitution to spend more on its military.

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