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A huge cyber attack left a number of Ukrainian government websites temporarily unavailable on Friday, officials said.  While it wasn't immediately clear who was behind the cyberattack, the disruption came amid heightened tensions with Russia

The EU’s pursuit of a single European defense market necessitates stronger democratic oversight. Members of the European Parliament and national legislative bodies should play a more proactive role as watchdog and engage in strategic foresight and planning.

The EU’s pursuit of a single European defense market necessitates stronger democratic oversight. Members of the European Parliament and national legislative bodies should play a more proactive role as watchdog and engage in strategic foresight and planning.

Supporters of European military integration have taken the new coalition’s foreign-policy strategy as a sign that an EU army may be feasible.

Supporters of European military integration have taken the new coalition’s foreign-policy strategy as a sign that an EU army may be feasible.

Maj. Donatas Palavenis of Lithuania lays out an analysis for what makes an EDF pitch successful.

The EU’s foreign policy chief has recommended funding the development of a “next generation” drone that could be deployed over land and sea in military operations, as well as for “civilian, law enforcement use.”

Ireland may geographically be closer to Britain, but politically, with Brexit, and the UK becoming a ‘third country outside the EU, France is now the Republic’s closest neighbour - a relationship the French are keen to develop and deepen.

Over the last decade, EU policy has employed both an indirect, context-shaping approach to climate security, which focuses more on process than output, and a protective-autonomy approach, which focuses on multiple defensive approaches to safeguard the EU’s geopolitical interests. In putting these approaches into practice, the EU has advanced a rich profusion of climate security initiatives; diplomats certainly do not need to be told that “climate policy is foreign policy,” as they have b...

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...