The U.S. State Department has drawn up plans to close a dozen consulates by this summer and is considering closing more missions, the New York Times reported on Thursday, citing U.S. officials.

Europe must engage the United States in security debates and help find a way to bring it closer to Ukraine after the halt of U.S. military aid to Kyiv, Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky said on Tuesday.

The trans-Atlantic alliance is gravely wounded, but Europe and the U.S. are not about to march off on their separate ways. The post The U.S. and Europe Are Linked by a Lot More Than an Alliance appeared first on World Politics Review.

As a rapid rise in military spending across Europe looks increasingly likely, could it also give the region’s economy a much-needed shot in the arm? That depends on where the money comes from and how it is spent.

Trump has done more harm to the Atlantic alliance than in four years of his last presidency. Europeans now see him as a traitor.

WOLFGANG ISCHINGER is President of the Munich Security Conference Foundation Council and former German Ambassador to the United States.

Despite heated rhetoric, the transatlantic alliance between the United States and Europe remains the foundation of global stability.

European Union leader Ursula von der Leyen says the bloc is "in an era of rearmament," as Trump casts rising doubt on old alliances.

In fact this was Christian Pineau, the French foreign minister, after the Suez crisis in 1956. Then, America forced Britain and France to pull back from their joint military adventure. Britain concluded that it had to hug America close;