The group brings together the continent's biggest military spenders: France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Britain.

“I give you my solemn warning that under the present trend, the next world war is inevitable,” declared the French military leader Ferdinand Foch. It was 1921, and Foch, the commander in chief of the ...

Europe’s five biggest defence powers are set to announce a plan to invest in military drones as part of wider efforts to boost the defence industry in the face of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and ...

“I believe the time has come to bring Europe’s mutual defense clause to life,” European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen declared at the 2026 Munich Security Conference. Her words captured ...