Category: 3. Europe

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth replied to Vance: “I fully share your loathing of European free-loading. It’s PATHETIC.”

Speaking to Times Radio, Healey called the comments a “challenge” rather than an insult.

“The Americans…

It’s spring statement day — a bigger day than the Treasury probably ever wanted it to be — but definitely not a budget.

With Chancellor Rachel Reeves on course to break her own fiscal rules, she’ll lay out how she intends…

It’s spring statement day — a bigger day than the Treasury probably ever wanted it to be — but definitely not a budget.

With Chancellor Rachel Reeves on course to break her own fiscal rules, she’ll lay out how she intends…

The EU predicted possible carbon leakage over 20 years ago. The 2003 Emissions Trading Directive highlighted this risk, notably for cement production. More than two decades later, the doomsday scenario is becoming reality.

Eastern cement…

London — In the British Parliament, the Signal group chat controversy prompted a hard question on Wednesday for the U.K. leader from opposition lawmaker Ed Davey: Can Britain still trust America with its secrets? 

“Will the prime…

For 75 years, America’s NATO allies have relied on the U.S. nuclear arsenal to provide for the defense of Europe. This was never a terribly logical policy. As Lawrence Freedman, the doyen of British strategic historians, put it in these…