‘EU veto must stay’: Slovakia
The right of individual nations to veto key European Union decisions must remain in place, says Slovakia, because EU members "do not forfeit their sovereignty" when…
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Exclusive: Gerard Baker on Rubio in Munich asks, will Europeans finally get the message?
If JD Vance sent Europeans to their fainting couches at last year’s Munich Security Conference, this year Marco Rubio will be on hand to supply the smelling salts.
Dutch Government wants to strip Hungary and Slovakia of EU power and funds
The new minority Dutch Government has a passage in its coalition agreement which says it wants to take away funds and voting power of countries perceived as Eurosceptic,…
EU army is ‘pointless’ says Poland’s Foreign Minister
Poland’s top diplomat said creating a European Union army is unrealistic, but suggested member states could form a smaller, brigade-sized "European legion" to…
History tells us: Ukraine into the EU will be Europe’s self-destruction
In her seminal work, The March of Folly, American historian Barbara Tuchman provided four historical examples, from the Trojan War to the Vietnam War, of absurd…
Belgian PM says US showing ‘lack of respect’ to European allies
Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever has reiterated his strong grievances over what he describes as the US' "clear lack of respect" towards its European partners…
Italy’s Moscow envoy ‘questions sanctions, warns EU risks being sidelined’
Italy is under the spotlight after its new ambassador to Moscow reportedly questioned European Union sanctions on Russia and the effectiveness of the bloc's foreign…
‘Not a single euro more’: Austria’s FPÖ demands halt to Ukraine aid
The right-wing Austrian Freedom Party (FPÖ) is calling for an immediate end to all aid from Austria to Ukraine, complaining that the country had “long since turned…
Kremlin rules out talks with ‘semi-literate, incompetent’ EU bureaucrats
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov has categorically ruled out any negotiations with Vice-President of the European Commission Kaja Kallas or the European Union's broader…
Greenland attack talk turned Europeans against Trump, poll finds
US President Donald Trump's Greenland threats have turned Europeans against his country, according to one poll.
Italian minister says Zelensky acts ‘ungenerous’ towards Europe
Italian foreign minister Antonio Tajani has described Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's recent remarks at the World Economic Forum in Davos as "ungenerous".
Trump in Davos: Inflammatory rhetoric, strategic policy signals
When President Donald Trump took the stage at the World Economic Forum in Davos on January 20th, he delivered a speech that was characteristically bombastic, tangential,…
Italy holds back on Trump’s Gaza peace plan
Italy will not join US President Donald Trump’s Board of Peace for Gaza, at least for the time being.
Unity? Bulgaria doesn’t care about Greenland, Spain doesn’t care about Estonia
Europe’s leadership, particularly western and north-central Europeans, made two arguments when faced with President Donald Trump’s move to annex Greenland: That,…
Germany can no longer afford purity: Berlin reroutes to Russia
When Friedrich Merz speaks twice of reconciliation with Russia shortly after a strategically important visit to India, it is not a slip of the tongue. It is a signal.
Italy rejects Greenland troop deployment as ‘beginning of a joke’
Italy has ruled out sending troops to Greenland.
Russian energy ban depends on EU members’ choices not EC, says Energy Commisisoner
European Commissioner for Energy and Housing Dan Jørgensen said European Union nations — not the EC — ultimately hold the power to stop buying Russian energy.
The Danes protecting Greenland: They must learn from de Gaulle
“May you live in interesting times!” was a famous sentence a century ago.
“Bonsai armies” no more: EU chief wants standing military force
The European Commission is urging member states to consider establishing a standing military force of 100,000 troops.
Pakistan, Gaza and Europe’s strategic absence
Pakistan was never supposed to matter to Europe’s Middle East policy. Yet today, it suddenly does.
Brussels ‘Rule of Law’ is now just a punishment for ideological dissent
In a speech last year to the European Parliament, Commission President Ursula von der Leyen offered a candid justification for withholding billions in EU funds from…
EU has forgotten Pascal’s rule that ‘Law without force is impotent’
The European reaction to America’s seizure of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has largely mirrored what one sadly has come to expect from the once proud continent:…
Putin and EU, watch and learn: How to take Venezuela in two hours
The raid on Caracas that landed Nicolas Maduro and his wife in Brooklyn’s Metropolitan Detention Centre has surely focused minds in the Kremlin.
Swiss journalist Roger Köppel facing EU sanctions over alleged pro-Russian narratives
Roger Köppel, the Swiss journalist and editor-in-chief of the weekly Die Weltwoche, could be added to a European Union sanctions list amid concerns that his reporting…
Belgium wins battle over Russian assets, EU to lend Ukraine €90bn instead
European leaders have decided to loan €90 billion to Ukraine over the next two years using their own means instead of frozen Russian assets.
US sees Europe as a continent that opposes everything they hold dear
German Chancellor Friedrich Merz recently declared that the “Pax Americana” in which the United States guaranteed European security is over.
From our correspondent in Tehran: Iran sees Europe as marginal, only US counts
Iran views Europe as a diplomatic minor player in the Middle East, Iranian officials and analysts told Brussels Signal during meetings in Tehran, arguing that EU…
Freezing Russian assets: When political ends justify illegal means
Do political ends justify illegal means?
The US goal of strength and success: Europe should stop fussing and get in step
There was a widespread European reaction of offended sensibilities last week to the customary statement of a relatively new US administration of its strategic objectives.
US security ‘blob’ fail to understand what the EU is really like
Any British official who has worked on European policy at any point over the last 50 years knows that the idea of American neutrality on the EU is a myth.