
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte welcomed Czech President Petr Pavel to NATO Headquarters on Wednesday (21 May 2025) to discuss preparations for the upcoming NATO Summit in The Hague. The [..]
The NATO Joint Analysis Training and Education Centre (JATEC) in Bydgoszcz, Poland held a workshop on total defence and resilience. 21 participants from six NATO Allies and Ukraine addressed topics [..]
NATO Deputy Secretary General Radmila Shekerinska welcomed the European Commissioner for Defence and Space, Andrius Kubilius, to NATO Headquarters for a meeting with Allies in the North Atlantic Council. Ms. [..]
NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte visited Warsaw, where he met Polish President Andrzej Duda, Prime Minister Donald Tusk, Deputy Prime Minister and Defence Minister Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz, and Foreign Minister Radosław [..]
On Wednesday (19 February 2025), Secretary General Mark Rutte welcomed the Executive Director of the International Energy Agency, Fatih Birol and the European Commissioner for Energy, Dan Joergensen, to the [..]
Former President of Estonia Kersti Kaljulaid has noted favorably an apparent push by the United States for many Western European nations to increase their defense spending, highlighting NATO’s unfair burden [..]
On Monday (3 February 2025), NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte participated in an informal meeting of EU leaders in Brussels to discuss European defence. During the meeting the Secretary General [..]
Estonia wants NATO members to start monitoring Baltic Sea infrastructure on rotation, similar to the air policing mission, following suspected sabotage of undersea cables. A dozen ships will be deployed [..]
Experts on climate change from 16 countries – including NATO members and partners – as well as from NATO, the European Union and the African Union gathered in Rome (Italy), [..]
During his first trip to the Eastern Flank of the Alliance since taking office, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte met with Estonian President Alar Karis, Prime Minister Kristen Michal, Foreign [..]
Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda condemned violations of NATO airspace by the aggressor and called for strengthening air defense in the Baltic countries following the crash of a Russian military drone [..]
Lithuania, inspired by Poland’s example, aims to allocate more than 3 percent of its GDP to defense, President Gitanas Nauseda said in Warsaw on Wednesday. Currently, Poland allocates 4 percent [..]
By journalist Inga Karlinska. EU-Russia tensions have been elevated since the latter’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula in 2014 and have gone downhill since Russia’s outright invasion of and war [..]
Lithuania is considering acquiring Iris-T medium-range air defense systems from Germany, Lithuanian Defense Minister Laurynas Kasciunas said after meeting with his German counterpart Boris Pistorius in Lithuania’s Baltic Sea resort [..]
The Cabinet of Ministers on Tuesday approved a memorandum of understanding on the Spanish Defense Ministry’s plan to join the Riga-based NATO Strategic Communication Centre of Excellence. The Spanish Defense [..]
Russia is not only allocating massive resources for the war in Ukraine but is also preparing for a long-term confrontation with NATO, according to Lithuanian intelligence. “Russia is allocating enormous [..]