Turkish President Recep Erdoğan is further expanding the country's autocracy. At the same time, Turkey is becoming increasingly important to NATO, and the alliance's Secretary General is campaigning for an expansion of relations.
By Wilhelmine Stenglin
Liberal mayor Nicușor Dan has won Romania’s presidential election, but far-right candidate George Simion rejected the result and falsely declared himself the winner on election night.
By Stephan Israel
After much back and forth, the ceasefire talks between Ukraine and Russia will only begin today, Friday, in Istanbul. Without Vladimir Putin and now also without Volodymyr Zelenskiy. Hopes for an early end to the fighting dwindled on Thursday.
By Wilhelmine Stenglin
The run-off election in Romania will also decide whether the country remains on a pro-Western course: The far-right George Simion is the favorite going into the second round on Sunday. However, the pro-European challenger and Bucharest mayor Nicusor Dan has recently caught up.
By Frank Stier
The NATO foreign ministers are meeting in Antalya on Thursday. The planned increase in defense spending is on the agenda. However, the possible talks between Ukraine and Russia are likely to take up a lot of space.
By Wilhelmine Stenglin
Environmentalists propose using climate and nature conservation to improve defense readiness: Marshes and wetlands in Poland, the Baltic States, and Finland should secure NATO's eastern flank and simultaneously boost the market for voluntary peatland certificates in Europe.
By Bernhard Pötter
Spain is the fourth-largest EU economy. Despite this, the country is one of the worst performers within NATO in terms of defense spending. Now there is a surprising announcement.
By Redaktion Table
As Chairman of the EU Military Committee, Robert Brieger advises Foreign Affairs Commissioner Kaja Kallas. The aim is for Europe to be able to defend itself by the end of the decade, says the general from Austria in an interview with Stephan Israel. The Commission has presented the necessary instruments for this with the ReArm Europe rearmament program.
By Stephan Israel
At his first meeting with NATO foreign ministers, Marco Rubio denied that the USA was planning to leave the alliance. On the sidelines of the North Atlantic Council, however, he reiterated the demand that the member states should increase their defense spending to five percent.
By Stephan Israel
When the NATO foreign ministers meet in Brussels today, Europeans and Canadians will be analyzing every word of their new US colleague Marco Rubio in detail. They will be asking whether the Trump administration is still committed to the alliance and how the USA will deal with Russia in future.
By Stephan Israel
The North Atlantic Alliance (NATO) is an alliance of states currently consisting of 30 member states. In addition to numerous European states, the USA and Canada belong to it from the American continent. China is not a member of the alliance. The relationship between NATO and China is therefore on shaky ground. This is because NATO officially regards the People's Republic as a threat due to China's growing influence and international policy. At the 2019 NATO summit, the alliance had still expressed restraint in this regard. This in no way means that NATO considers China an enemy. Nevertheless, the alliance is increasingly concerned about the following points:
China is spending a lot of money on armaments and military;
China's partnership with Russia;
Expansion of telecommunications infrastructure (5G);
Expansion of infrastructure as part of the New Silk Road Initiative;
Influence and leverage through cheap loans and indebtedness of target countries in the "global south."
In the future, therefore, China is to be included in NATO's strategic concept. In the current version of 2010, the People's Republic is not mentioned. Nevertheless, cooperation with China is to be strengthened, especially on issues such as climate change and arms control. From disinformation campaigns to transparency demands and bans to cooperation and coordination - current China-Nato news from Table.Redaktion!
