Relations between the U.S. and Europe hit a low point as President Donald Trump’s security strategy slams Europe but largely ignores threats from Russia and China.

Officials are accusing Russia of smaller-scale assaults. President Vladimir V. Putin sought to turn the tables, saying that if Europe were to start a war, Russia is ready.

Updated defense data across the European Union (EU) show that military spending has grown sharply since Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. NATO’s European members added more than $100 billion in defense outlays between 2022 and 2024, with further increases projected through the decade.

The other is the National Escape Clause (nec), which allows countries to increase defence spending by up to 1.5% of gdp over the next four years without falling foul of eu deficit rules. Already 16 countries have signed up,

A new White House policy document formalizes President Trump’s long-held contempt for Europe’s leaders. It made clear that the continent now stands at a strategic crossroads.

MEPs Cristian Terheș (ECR) and Cynthia Ní Mhurchú (Renew Europe) discuss the security of Europe on The Ring. View on euronews

European governments are fearful that Washington is laying the groundwork for an ultimatum to Kyiv on Moscow's terms.

Europeans are feeling “genuine fear and distrust regarding the United States,” former Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves told NBC News.

Whether the debate is occasioned by a polemical book or a movie like last year’s “Civil War,” I consistently take the negative on the question of whether the United States is headed for a genuine civil war. In those debates it’s usually liberals ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will meet with European leaders in London on Monday, in a show of solidarity, after US President Donald Trump accused him of not reading the latest peace proposal and as the Kremlin praised America’s new harder posture towards Europe.