Welcome to Wider Europe, RFE/RL's newsletter focusing on the key issues concerning the European Union, NATO, and other institutions and their relationships with the Western Balkans and Europe's ...

Baltic countries like Lithuania have surged defense spending since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 ...

The United States has informed its NATO allies that it will scale back its troop presence along Europe’s eastern border with Ukraine as it focuses on security priorities elsewhere in the world, ...

STUTTGART, Germany — Russian provocations in Eastern Europe are on the decline, according to Estonia’s spy chief, who says ...

After slowly taxiing towards the runway at NATO’s Geilenkirchen airbase in Germany, the pilots go full throttle and the decades-old E-3 Sentry surveillance plane screams as it gains speed and lifts ...

STUTTGART, Germany — A bipartisan contingent of U.S. lawmakers is pushing for increased military support to allies on NATO’s eastern flank, where front-line countries would get priority when it comes ...

NATO members have less than 5% of the air defence capabilities it would need to protect Central and Eastern Europe, per the Financial Times.

The US is withdrawing some troops from Romania, on NATO’s eastern flank, as the Pentagon works to shift its focus away from Europe and toward homeland defense and Latin America, US and European ...

The U.S. is scaling back its military presence in Romania as Eastern Europe continues to grapple with the ongoing Russia-Ukraine war. Some have expressed concern that this could mean American troops ...

BRUSSELS — The United States has informed its NATO allies that it will scale back its troop presence along Europe’s eastern border with Ukraine as it focuses on security priorities elsewhere in the ...