Moscow’s demand during Riyadh talks rejected but allies fear Donald Trump could yet allow restoration of former Soviet bloc

NATO members are continuing their largest combat exercises of 2025 amid concern within the 32-nation alliance over its most powerful member, the United States

The Munich conference exposed tensions between the US and Europe over Nato and Ukraine - the BBC's Frank Gardner explains why this was a watershed in relations.

President Donald Trump has called for a sweeping overhaul of the US military that could affect Washington's role in NATO as well as cooperation with Europe and support for Ukraine against Russia. But social media posts that say the US leader closed a military base in Greece are false -- Trump himself denied the claims and a Pentagon official told AFP the facility is not America's to close .

As the re-elected US president threatened to slap 25 per cent tariffs on imports from the EU and demurred on security guarantees for Ukraine and Nato, our expert panel took FT subscribers’ questions on the following topics and more: Will EU countries shoulder more of their own defence and build up a co-ordinated defence industry as Trump eyes talks to end Russia’s war on Ukraine bypassing Ukraine?

By doing so, the United States is condoning Russia’s subversion of the postwar Europe that America helped create and secure. The parties Russia favors are hostile to the European Union, opposed to higher military spending and receptive to Russia’s arguments about the recklessness of NATO expansion and the need to assert right-wing Christian values.

NATO members continued their largest combat exercises of 2025 on Wednesday, testing their ability to rapidly deploy large-scale forces on the 32-nation alliance’s eastern border as worries grow over its most powerful member,

It created a single security space among the democratic nations in North America and Europe. The concept of a one-for-all, indivisible security across the North Atlantic has been remarkably successful in deterring attacks against NATO members.

Europe is confronting an “existential” moment in its history, foreign ministers told a CNBC-moderated panel at the Munich Security Conference on Saturday.

WSJ unpacks the allegations of sabotage that have turned the Baltic Sea into the focal point of Moscow’s hybrid war with NATO.

Should an AfD-led Germany withdraw from NATO, the alliance would surely collapse, as would an EU without Germany. Instead, a German-Russian alliance would fill Europe’s security vacuum and