The defense ministers of Europe’s five top military spenders say they intend to continue increasing their investments in defense but described President-elect Donald Trump’s challenge for them to raise spending to 5% of their overall economic output as extremely difficult.

The meeting of the defence ministers from the EU's largest countries together with the deputy defence minister of Great Britain comes as Poland begins its rotating presidency of the EU and as Europe braces for the unpredictability of a new Donald Trump presidency.

Warsaw will host a meeting of defense ministers from the Big Five (Poland, Germany, France, Italy, and the UK), to be joined b

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy says he has held further discussions with French President Emmanuel Macron about the possibility of Western troops deploying in Ukraine to safeguard any peace deal ending the nearly three-year war with Russia.

Defence Ministers from Poland, Germany, France, Italy and the UK met in Warsaw on Monday to discuss European security matters in a new five-way format established in the wake of Donald Trump's US presidential election win.

PARIS (AFP) — Detections of irregular migrants entering the European Union fell in 2024 to the lowest level recorded since 2021 due to a crackdown on traffickers, the bloc's border agency said on Tuesday.

European defense ministers from Germany, France, Britain, Italy, and Poland meet to discuss increasing defense investments amid challenges posed by President Trump's call for NATO allies to allocate 5% of GDP to military spending.

Defence ministers from Poland, France, Italy, and Germany met in Warsaw on Monday to discuss military aid to Ukraine and security in Europe. The meeting of the defence ministers from the EU's ...

President-elect Donald Trump has criticized the cost of the war for US taxpayers through major military aid packages for Ukraine, and vowed to bring the conflict to a swift end.

Many of the European politicians expected to be in Washington on Monday share President-elect Donald J. Trump’s anti-immigrant stance.

Europe is seeing a dramatic boost in defense budgets, driven by both long-standing pressure from Washington and the continent’s own reaction to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. That promises a glut of military contracts for weapons-makers in Europe as well as in the U.S., South Korea and elsewhere.

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