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Call to arms Quevrin said Thales Belgium is seeing “unbelievable” demand for its rockets as NATO scrambles to secure its skies. A majority of its current production is going to Ukraine. The rockets made in its Herstal site and Évegnée Fort factory can be used against drones, with the laser-guided version targeting larger, high-altitude UAVs like Iranian-designed Shaheds, while their unguided siblings instead release thousands of steel balls upon detonation to take out swarms of smaller, low-altitude drones. In recent weeks, the military alliance has drawn sharp criticism for its response to recent airspace incursions, after NATO warplanes used multimillion-dollar…
“We have a global problem, so this requires really a global solution that has to touch on everybody,” the Commission official said about the global measures. They were granted anonymity, as is customary, to brief ahead of the announcement. The world produces more steel than it consumes and the total capacity of all plants around the world adds up to five times the European demand. With the plans, Brussels would match Canada’s steel protections but not go as far as U.S. President Donald Trump’s 50 percent tariff, which applies from the first ton on virtually all imports. The U.S. also…
In an juddering political car wreck, the president on Monday accepted the shock resignation of Prime Minister Sébastien Lecornu, after barely 27 days, only to then task him with finding a path out of the latest mess by Wednesday evening. Macron’s own camp seems exasperated. Former Prime Minister Gabriel Attal, who now leads Macron’s centrist party Renaissance, appeared on national television on Monday evening and said he “no longer understands” the president’s decisions. Edouard Philippe, another former prime minister under Macron and a candidate in the next presidential election in 2027, took things one step further on Tuesday, calling on…
The comments — made during a campaign event for Dutch center-right party Christian Democratic Appeal ahead of national elections Oct. 29 — are another shot across the bow of the EU’s embattled artificial intelligence law. ASML, Europe’s leading tech company by market cap, has been campaigning to pause the parts of the law that are not yet implemented. In July, the company’s executives signed onto a letter from 46 companies calling for a two-year pause. The company in September became the largest shareholder of French AI company Mistral with a €1.3 billion investment, strengthening the influence of ASML when it…
Known as Israel’s “Car Wall,” the wrecks were seized by militants during the assault that left more than 1,200 people dead. The site has since become a sanctuary and symbol of remembrance for those who lost their lives in the unprecedented attack. At dawn that day, nearly 4,000 Hamas-led attackers crossed the barriers from Gaza and rampaged through southern Israel. Among their targets was the Nova music festival, where hundreds of young people were killed as militants descended on the crowd using paramotors. Questions over how the attackers managed to breach Israeli defences and operate for hours before the army…
MANCHESTER, England — Former Tory leadership hopeful Penny Mordaunt endorsed the U.K. pulling out of the European Convention on Human Rights, in a marked shift from her previous position. Speaking at the POLITICO Pub at Conservative Party Conference on Tuesday, Mordaunt — a former Cabinet minister still seen as a potential contender for the Tory crown — commended current Leader Kemi Badenoch’s decision to withdraw from the ECHR if the Conservatives re-enter government. “I do support that policy,” Mordaunt said. “Kemi has been right to do the hard yards behind it. “She hasn’t just done the hard yards by reading…
Published on 07/10/2025 – 16:30 GMT+2 US President Donald Trump’s threat to take over Greenland still hangs over the Arctic island’s residents, Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen said on Tuesday. Earlier this year, Trump sent shockwaves across Europe when he publicly refused to rule out the possibility of using military force or economic coercion to seize the semi-autonomous Danish territory. While his attention has since turned to other issues ranging from trade tariffs and NATO spending to Russia’s war in Ukraine, Frederiksen said Trump’s takeover threat was still a concern for Denmark and for the some 60,000 inhabitants of Greenland.…
In a rare interview, Jonathan Reynolds told POLITICO he would not be employing a tarantula or a “little black book,” but would take a gentler approach to keep restive MPs on the government’s side. Sep 29 5 mins read
Two years since the deadly Hamas-led 7 October attack, security experts in Israel and worldwide are still analysing what the key oversights were and whether Israel could have pre-empted the incursion, which took 1,200 lives and saw 250 people taken hostage by Hamas. Earlier this year the Israeli military published its first official account of the mistakes that led to its failures during the 7 October 2023 attack, which triggered the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza. The report concluded that the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) “failed in its mission to protect Israeli civilians”. The 19-page report concludes that Israel’s military misjudged…