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Candidate countries can and should be involved in Europe’s ongoing rearmament and force-modernization drive. These three NATO members have committed to scale up core defense spending from around 2 percent to 3.5 percent of their GDP, a target they could reach by the mid-2030s. They have signed security partnerships with the EU, paving the way for participation in union-wide schemes such as the European defense industry program.

How to Join the EU in Three Easy Steps

Montenegro and Albania are frontrunners for EU enlargement in the Western Balkans, but they can’t just sit back and wait. To meet their 2030 accession ambitions, they must make a strong positive case.

Schinas is now called upon to manage a sector in deep crisis of confidence in national institutions. In return, sources close to the government in Athens suggest he may be offered the chance to stand as a candidate lawmaker in northern Greece in next year’s national elections.

Schinas in the hot seat: Can he restore trust in Greek agriculture?

Former Commission vice-president is tasked with managing a sector ravaged by scandal

Mr Magyar, a former Orbán ally, hailed it as the largest turnout since the first elections after the fall of communism in 1990 and said he had won the largest mandate in Hungary’s democratic history.

Orban ousted in Hungarian election landslide

Victorious Peter Magyar, of centre-Right Tisza party, expected to pursue closer relations with EU and Nato

Macron has long advocated for European allies to build more conventional capabilities to better defend themselves and rely less on the United States. There has certainly been some measure of self-interest in expanding the market share of the French weapons industry, but that in itself isn’t a bad element.

On NATO, Trump Should Embrace France Instead of Bashing It

Donald Trump’s repudiation of NATO goes against the Make America Great Again vision of a U.S.-centered foreign policy. If the goal is to preserve the alliance by boosting Europe’s commitments, leaning into France’s vision is the most America First way forward.

Ursula von der Leyen seems to think that she should set foreign policy. But that task falls under the responsibility of EU foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas. The Commission President also often ignores Council President Antonio Costa and contact directly council members, the heads of the EU member states.

In foreign affairs, the EU is on the sidelines

The European Union is increasingly on the sidelines. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the EU seemed to regain its role. It reacted quickly and unanimously with heavy sanctions against Russia.