MADRID (AP) — Inside a sprawling hangar in Spain, workers bolt together a fuselage for European aerospace giant Airbus, which churns out jets and other military equipment. The multinational conglomerate is a rarity in Europe’s defense industry, backed ...

Last month’s Signal chat scandal was the latest of several moves by the three-month-old Trump administration that have—at last—catalyzed European action toward strategic autonomy and defense capabilities. Now European leaders must keep their ...

Across Europe, a long-term economic forecast to 2040 predicted annual growth of just 0.9% over the next 15 years—down from 1.3% in the decade before COVID. And this forecast was in December 2024, before Donald Trump's aggressive tariff policies had reignited trade tensions between the US and Europe (and pretty much everywhere else in the world).

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Experts say Trump's influence abroad is "stronger" than it was two years ago. If this past weekend in European politics is an indicator of anything, it's that the "Trump effect" is real, and its reverberations are unpredictable. Three European Union ...

When former European Central Bank President Mario Draghi unveiled his landmark report into the continent’s competitiveness, he wasn’t just suggesting a new set of regulatory and investment reforms. He was also urging the EU’s political leaders to ...

Jeremy Corbyn, Manon Aubry, Yanis Varoufakis, Irene Montero among dozens urging Europe to oppose U.S. military buildup. Over sixty political leaders from across Europe have issued an urgent warning against what they describe as a “prelude to invasion ...

The war in Ukraine is exposing the growing divisions between the U.S. and Europe. President Trump appears to be increasingly frustrated by his failure to end the conflict. Here's what he had to say about some traditional allies during an interview with ...

Following President Trump's tariff threat over lack of support for U.S. control of Greenland, the European Union paused its approval of a U.S. trade deal from last summer. NBC News' Keir Simmons details what the move means for American relations with major allies.