Radosław Sikorski Editor's note: Radek Sikorski was Poland’s defense minister from 2005 to 2007 and foreign minister from 2007 to 2014. What keeps you awake at night if you are the foreign minister of one of America’s vulnerable allies, as I was? That Russian President Vladimir Putin will do to you what
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Bloodbath after man attacks bus in German city, stabs passengers
At least ten people have been injured after a man drew a knife and began stabbing terrified passengers on a packed bus in the German city of Luebeck this afternoon. Witnesses described a "bloodbath" following the horrific attack which left one people seriously injured. Screaming passengers ran for their lives after a
UK intelligence, security agencies using child spies against terrorists – report
The UK intelligence and security agencies are deploying children as spies in covert policing and security operations against terrorists, gangs and drug dealers, new UK parliamentary report revealed. Some of the minors tasked with gathering intelligence are under 16, the report by a House of Lords review committee said. The report, published last week, was
Brookings experts react to the Trump-Putin meeting and NATO summit
Thomas Wright, Alina Polyakova, Constanze Stelzenmüller, Steven Pifer, Pavel K. Baev, Amanda Sloat, Célia Belin, Kemal Kirişci, and Tarun Chhabra Wright, Director of the Center on the United States and Europe; Senior Fellow in the Project on International Order and Strategy: The summit today, and the visit to Brussels and the U.K. that preceded it, revealed that the president is now
NATO expels seven Russian diplomats
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation has expelled seven Russian diplomats, while it has also denied accreditation to three more, AFP reports, quoting NATO’s Secretary General, Jens Stoltenberg. Among other things, NATO promotes democratic values and enables its 29-member countries to consult and cooperate on defence and security-related issues to solve problems,
Is Europe bold enough to counter US ambivalence?
The Munich Security Conference is expected to be dominated by US President Donald Trump's ambivalence toward traditional alliances, leaving Europe no choice but to step up its defense initiatives. So much for basing scholarly foreign-policy debate on the international order. "The world is becoming less international and less orderly," Ambassador Wolfgang
NATO Defence Ministers take decisions to strengthen the Alliance
NATO Defence Ministers wrapped up two days of talks in Brussels on Thursday (15 February 2018), focused on the NATO Command Structure, fair burden-sharing and the Alliance's efforts to project stability beyond its borders. On Wednesday, ministers took decisions to modernise the NATO Command Structure, in response to a changed security
Russia has better integrated electronic warfare capability than NATO: UK expert
..Helped counter drone swarm attack in Syria Russia boasts better integrated electronic warfare and “offensive and defensive electromagnetic spectrum capabilities” than NATO forces in Europe, a UK authority on the Kremlin’s military said this week. USNI News quoted Roger McDermott, a senior research fellow in war studies at King’s College London, as
Exiled Boko Haram suspect arrested in Germany
EU to meet Iran to back nuclear deal in message to Trump
By Robin Emmott, John Irish BRUSSELS/PARIS (Reuters) - European powers will reaffirm on Thursday their support for the Iran nuclear deal that Donald Trump has rejected, EU diplomats said, on the eve of a deadline for the U.S. president to decide whether to reimpose oil sanctions lifted under the agreement. At a meeting