In 2022, samples from a Sahara dust storm showed that radioactivity from nuclear tests 70 years ago still drifts around northern Europe.

The UK and France are Europe’s preeminent military powers, but both have slashed troop numbers since the Cold War. France’s active armed forces shrank by 56% between 1990 and 2024, to 203,850.

David Lammy today warned the post-Cold War era of peace is 'over' and Europe's security 'is on a knife edge'.

Russia on Tuesday formally withdrew from a landmark security treaty which limited key categories of conventional armed forces, blaming the United States for undermining post-Cold War security.

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Some 125 years ago, German statesman Otto von Bismarck observed in his memoirs that there was no such thing as Europe, merely a geographical notion. As 31 NATO members convene in Vilnius this week ...

Recently, the United States has been followed by a number of European countries in supporting a cold war policy toward Russia and China. This has created increasing problems in Europe—bringing a ...

Trump’s negotiations with Putin mean Europe needs to prepare for a second cold war The on-going conversations over Ukraine show the president continues to pull the US defence rug from under our ...

NATO on Tuesday announced plans to suspend its participation in the late Cold War-era arms control treaty that placed limits on military buildups in Europe, just hours after Russia formally ...

In this precarious new Cold War scenario, Europe has to consider both the attitude of a new U.S. administration and Chinese views on such contingencies.

Survival guides, stockpiling and mass evacuation drills. Europe is scrambling to prepare its citizens for the growing threat of conflict arriving on its doorstep.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty may seem like a Cold War relic, but with the war in Ukraine, the broadcaster is again being counted on to transmit straight news into areas where free press is ...