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Officials in Brussels debate how far a mandate for local purchases of weapons and ammunition should go.

A coalition of eastern European countries led by Poland and Estonia is also calling for NATO members to increase the spending benchmark.

"I think were experiencing the first cyber AI war," said David Cipoletta from Pison, which is supplying Ukraine with wearable wrist bands that control drones.

The longer the war with Russia lasts the more likely it becomes that the damage to Ukraine will be irreparable.

Europe’s military support for Ukraine has been decreasing since April, according to data from the Kiel Institute.

Two per cent defence spending is the new gospel in Europe. But not everyone is living up to their professed ideals.

The EU and NATO have teamed up in Europe's far north to fight hybrid threats from "tweets to tanks." A new center of excellence focuses on resilience to menaces from little green men to huge humanitarian catastrophes.

A Rafale-M fighter jet of the French navy was forced to make an emergency landing in Malta after it experienced issues with refueling mid-air

In Europe, security and defense cooperation have long been the realm of member states and other security organizations like NATO. But recent efforts at the EU level have begun to create a European defense sector—which presents unique challenges and opportunities.

The Case for EU Defense A New Way Forward for Trans-Atlantic Security Relations June 1, 2021, 7:45 pm Getty/Carl De Souza/AFP The Dutch warship used by the EU Naval Force is pictured at the French military base in Djibouti in May 2015. Sam Hananel The state of European defense is not strong. The level of Europe’s defense spending and the size of its collective forces in uniform should make it a global power with one of the strongest militaries in the world. But Europe does not act as one...