As Europe prepares itself for a long conflict – frozen or not – on the shores of the Black Sea, it should commit to optimising the Danube River transport corridor to ensure the Black Sea remains free and open, write Kaush Arha, Ben Hodges, and George Scutaru.
EU countries and European institutions must do much more to share and centralise sensitive data, to better apprehend economic security risks and more efficiently protect supply chains from increasingly predacious geopolitical actors, writes Mathieu Duchâtel.
It’s the same drones and almost the same missiles. But Israel’s outstanding air defences and the decisive help it got from a mighty coalition of allies, including the US, wildly surpass anything Ukraine can hope for.
It often happens that news flying below the radar ends up being quite significant. Case in point: The announcement that two dozen German soldiers arrived in Vilnius on Monday, with a further 150 due to join them later this year, barely made headlines outside Lithuania.
As Europe faces the biggest security challenge since the Second World War, it must build its defence readiness, writes Charles Michel.
A wiretap leak has prompted Germany to denounce an “information war” and accuse Russian President Vladimir Putin of trying to undermine unity in Berlin over its support to Ukraine.
"Freedom isn't free" is an idiom used to describe sacrifice during times of crisis, used widely in the US to express gratitude to the military for defending freedom.
In a bold move, Danish Prime Minister Mette Fredriksen told the Munich Security Conference her country will donate its entire stock of artillery to Ukraine, emptying its stockpile as a consequence.
In light of all the broken promises and the domestic political crisis resulting in the resignation of Hungarian president Katalin Novák, a fast ratification of Sweden’s NATO accession by Hungary is out of sight. But with clever diplomacy, partners can corner Orbán and bring him to deliver, writes Daniel Hegedüs.
International law prohibits nuclear proliferation, but with Vladimir Putin consistently banalising the recourse to nuclear weapons and Donald Trump casting doubts on NATO’s reliability, some countries may be tempted to build their own nuclear arsenals.
Addressing climate change must be a top priority for the European defence community as it is now presenting threats to national and international security, writes Kris Peeters.
Although Ukraine was the most important item on NATO's summit agenda in Vilnius, some important developments were agreed upon that are shifting the Western military alliances' focus Eastwards, write Ben Hodges and Marcin Zaborowski.
The upcoming NATO Summit in Vilnius is not just any other summit: It needs to fix some big blunders made in the past, at the 1994 Budapest Memorandum and the 2008 Bucharest Summit, writes Ilhan Kyuchyuk.
In response to Russia’s war against Ukraine, the EU has proposed several initiatives to boost Europe’s defence industry and encourage joint procurement. But they need more funding and political leadership to be more than just symbolic, write Nicole Koenig and Leonard Schütte.
Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) has the most to gain from courageous decisions in Vilnius, but also the most to lose from unreasonable timidity, writes Robert Pszczel. Robert Pszczel served as a diplomat in the Polish MFA for almost a decade …
Recent discussions about whether or not to open a NATO liaison office in Japan showcase that the alliance is not united on how to respond to a more assertive China, writes Janne Leino.
In a memo to the future Secretary General of NATO, Ricardo Borges de Castro lays out the key priorities as well as the potential challenges she may face during her term in office.
Holding the G7 in Hiroshima without advancing on nuclear disarmament would simply be a political failure, write Merle Spellerberg and Max Lucks.
Putin has achieved what no one else could - make Europe realise that when it comes to financing its defence industry, the good reasons have started to outweigh the bad and the ugly ones. Calling for stronger support and more financing …
As China’s “wolf warrior” diplomats openly question the sovereignty of ex-Soviet states, including the Baltics, Eastern Europe should respond. Eastern European countries should invest in defense industrial supply chains that will not only bolster Ukraine but also support Taiwan, writes Joseph Webster.
Ukraine and NATO need a new concept of relations and Ukraine's path to membership, which the Vilnius Summit in July should establish. Diplomats and politicians should focus efforts on developing this concept and abandon the 2008 decision on the Membership Action Plan for Ukraine, write Sergiy Sydorenko and Alona Hetmanchuk.
NATO and the EU would do well to focus on traditional military hardware as they respectively embark on a rethink of old certainties and defence spending priorities, write Arthur de Liedekerke, Maarten Toelen and Rossana Bernardi.
Reading Vladimir Putin’s mind has become a full-time job for strategists and analysts. The question of the day is: What is behind the Russian president’s announced intention to station tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus?
Many were surprised when Boris Pistorius was announced as the new German defence minister, but only five weeks in, he already seems to live up to the task and has won over most of his former critics.
