#NATO

Russia’s Cyprus ambassador Murat Zyazikov on Monday refuted the suggestion of Cyprus pursing further relations with NATO, describing the bloc as “a relic of a bygone era”. Speaking to ...

PREZNIKTWO has embraced a new cause that is certain to win him many brownie points and give his flagging approval ratings a much-needed boost. He will raise the issue of ...

Greece and its government will “support Cyprus’ choices” regarding the question of whether or not it will join Nato, the country’s Foreign Minister Giorgos Gerapetritis said on Tuesday. “As ...

After more than two weeks of Operation Epic Fury, the largest US intervention in the Middle East since the Iraq war in 2003, it remains unclear what President Donald Trump goal ...

By Chrysovalantis Andreou For the past week or so there has been a tense atmosphere both within Cypriot government circles and internationally regarding developments in the Middle East. At the ...

Former Greek prime minister Alexis Tsipras has warned that Cyprus joining Nato would “only lead to new dangers”. Speaking at the presentation of his book in the town of Kozani ...

Former European Commission Vice President Margaritis Schinas said that Cyprus should now join Nato, after the island found itself targeted by Iranian-made drones amid a widening regional conflict. “I would ...

Israel launched a large wave of strikes on Tehran on Thursday, targeting what it said was infrastructure belonging to the Iranian authorities, after Iranian missiles sent millions of Israelis rushing ...

Every year at this time the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato), the world’s most powerful alliance for the past 77 years, holds a conference in Munich to examine its state ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio cast the United States as the “child of Europe” in a message of unity on Saturday, offering some reassurance as well as levelling more criticism ...

Nato has started military planning for an Arctic Sentry mission, a spokesperson for the alliance’s military headquarters Shape said on Tuesday, against a backdrop of tensions between the US ...

The European Parliament has put off until next week a decision on whether to resume work on the EU’s trade deal with the United States, which it had suspended ...

The world order is changing but not enduring a rupture, finance leaders said on Friday, pushing back on Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney’s narrative that a new order, driven ...

US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he would not take over Greenland by force, but stuck firmly to his demands for control of the Danish territory during a speech ...

After the Danish and Greenland foreign ministers came out of a meeting in Washington on 14 January convinced that Donald Trump really intended to seize Greenland, things moved very fast. Except ...

U.S. President Donald Trump has linked his drive to take control of Greenland to his failure to win the Nobel Peace Prize, saying he no longer thought “purely of ...

President Donald Trump has never made a secret of his contempt for the EU and his Western allies. And now, with his plan to take over Greenland, he threatens to ...

Russia is watching with glee as U.S. President Donald Trump’s drive to acquire Greenland widens splits with Europe even though his moves could have serious security ramifications for ...

European countries sent small numbers of military personnel to Greenland on Thursday as Denmark said it was pressing on with plans for a “larger and more permanent” NATO presence to ...

Joining Nato “would be a natural development” for Cyprus, President Nikos Christodoulides said on Tuesday. Speaking to French newspaper Le Figaro, he said that “if it were possible for Cyprus ...

President Trump’s National Security Strategy 2025 is a brief policy statement about a hugely controversial shift in US foreign policy away from the EU and Nato in favour of sovereign ...

President Nikos Christodoulides has proposed a tradeoff, where Cyprus would join Nato’s Partnership for Peace (PfP) programme in return for the resumption of Cyprus peace talks and Nicosia gradually ...

The Kremlin said on Tuesday that European claims that Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted to restore the Soviet Union were wrong and that claims Putin plans to invade a Nato ...

US Secretary of State Marco Rubio plans to skip a meeting of Nato foreign ministers in Brussels next week, two US officials said, in a highly unusual absence of the ...