The Latest Breaking News from NATO

Zelenskyy might visit Trump this week for a rare earth minerals deal in efforts to win Washington’s backing for Kyiv.

The lifelong Atlanticist was frank after his election victory: Nato is on the brink, and Germany must reassess its core beliefs on defence, says Jörg Lau, international correspondent for Die Zeit

Donald Trump has always been an avowed transactionalist rather than a transatlanticist. The author of The Art of the Deal made it clear during his first term as US president that he thought Nato was a bad deal for the US. He publicly berated European allies, notably Germany, for not…

British prime minister heads to Washington as Europe reels from seismic shift in relations with US president

General Lord Richards called for Nato countries to be ‘very grown up’ and ‘live within what is physically and militarily possible’

In May 1952, a treaty established the European Defence Community, an attempt by western European powers, with US support, to create a supranational army

THE INDEPEDENT DEBATE: As Trump’s approach to negotiations with Putin over the war in Ukraine raises security concerns, Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting, Friedrich Merz, has urged Europe to reduce its reliance on Nato and the US

The chancellor will be talking to European allies at the G20 on the importance of bolstering defence capabilities

The Labour leader faces a diplomatic balancing act as he heads over the Atlantic this week

John Thune was speaking after the U.S. voted against a United Nations resolution that would have put responsibility for the brutal Russian invasion on the man who ordered it

Diverting money from aid to the military is a grim expedient in a crisis that will surely define this prime minister’s legacy, says Guardian columnist Rafael Behr