The head of Europe’s biggest security forum said regional powers were “totally on the sidelines” of major discussions — but that it was their “own fault.”

A fter World War II, peace-loving Sweden began working on a nuclear bomb to stave off a feared Soviet invasion. But in the 1960s, the Scandinavian nation scrapped the program under pressure from the United States, whose nuclear arsenal has shielded Europe for about 80 years.

In many respects the EU is heading Mr Macron’s way. SAFE, the union’s new joint defence-procurement scheme, mandates (at French insistence) that at least 65% of the components of many systems it pays for must come from countries that are members of the EU or have association agreements with it.

A wargame exercise demonstrated the limits of European decision-making at a time of U.S. pullback.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz urged "a new transatlantic partnership" and French President Emmanuel Macron called for "a strong Europe" as more than 60 leaders gathered for the annual Munich Securi

Politicians, diplomats, officials and royals have seen reputations tarnished, investigations launched and jobs lost after a trove of more than 3 million pages of Epstein-related documents released by the U.S. Justice Department revealed their ties to the American financier and convicted sex offender who died behind bars in 2019.

Officials gather on Friday for Europe’s biggest annual security summit, where a speech by Vice President JD Vance last year started an unraveling of trans-Atlantic relations.

By Kate Abnett BRUSSELS, Feb 10 (Reuters) - Europe's fledgling green hydrogen industry is urging the EU to introduce "made in Europe" requirements for public spending on the sector, warning that without support to scale up quickly,