The EU still sees the United States as "allies" despite President Donald Trump's verbal broadsides against the bloc, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen said on Sunday, while stressing the need for Europe to "step up" on defence.

European Union leaders have committed to a massive step in defense cooperation following decades of hesitation

Turkey, with NATO's second-largest army and a Black Sea coastline, is looking to play a key role in Europe's security after Washington's pivot away from the region. Its military, strategically located on the eastern flank of the Atlantic Alliance and south of the Black Sea -- to which it controls access via the Bosphorus -- counts 373,

European leaders will once again try to grasp control of negotiations over the war in Ukraine on Thursday, in an increasingly frantic tug-of-war against the US and Russia that could be nearing a climax.

Shaken by the prospect of U.S. disengagement, European Union leaders vowed to bolster the bloc’s defenses at a crisis summit Thursday, while

Once turned away from the bloc, the European Union may return to Türkiye for defense needs amid tensions with the U.S. and Russia, years after the

After holding emergency talks in Brussels, European leaders agreed on a massive increase to defence spending, but Hungary refused to sign a statement of support for Ukraine.

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