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UK Greens seek change to NATO policy
By Paul Ingram*
3 July 2025
Europe: irrelevant as an American vassal, or prosperous as part of a Eurasian project?
By Paul Lookman
1 July 2025
This article is an abbreviated summary of a long read available here (in Dutch).
NATO commits to 5% spending plan to keep the Russians out, the Americans in and the Germans up
A review of the NATO Summit meeting in The Hague, 24-25 June 2025
Key events and decisions:
Improving oversight and accountability of the NATO Defence Planning Process
18 June 2025
Dayton meeting of NATO Parliamentary Assembly divorced from reality
28 May 2025
The Hague Investment Plan: NATO seeks to redefine ‘defence’ to hit 5% spending target by 2032
23 May 2025
The Balance of Power in the Russo-Ukraine War
By Steven Jermy
12 May 2025
Britain’s coalition of the willing decides that it's unwilling
Why does Whitehall stumble from one idiotic idea to another?
Ian Proud
30 April 2025
Ex-Nato official calls out Trump whispering Secretary General while Ukraine peace talks in the balance
Ian Davis
28 April 2025
Fateful errors - why NATO leaders should have listened to George Kennan in 1997
He was right, that forcing countries to choose between NATO and Russia would lead to conflict
Ian Proud
21 April 2025