The article reports on recent initiatives by Keir Starmer to build closer ties with the European Union without returning to its customs union. Starmer was a keen advocate of Remain in the debates over the 2016 referendum but, respecting the outcome of the vote, he has not tried to rejoin after Labour returned to government.

An annual strategy document, which has described threats from China to Russia, directs some of its harshest language at NATO allies.

The New York mayor-elect's victory has motivated the European left, with politicians casting themselves as their country's version of Mamdani, and strategists eager to study how he won.

The message couldn’t have been clearer. In a 33-page National Security Strategy signed by President Donald Trump, the White House said Europe risked being wiped away unless it changed its culture and politics.

Europeans are feeling “genuine fear and distrust regarding the United States,” former Estonian President Toomas Hendrik Ilves told NBC News.

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s administration has set forth a new national security strategy that paints European allies as weak and aims to reassert America’s dominance in the Western Hemisphere.

The White House quietly released President Donald Trump’s new national security strategy late Thursday, a 33-page document that elevates his “America First” doctrine and sets out the administration’s realignment of US foreign policy,

EU rules help strengthen requirements relating to financing and transparency for European political parties and foundations and limit the risk of foreign interference. On this page What are European political parties and foundations? Political parties: a ...