Maritime

Brussels announces strategy to invest in upgrading infrastructure for military use. 

Attacks ramped up after Moscow invaded Ukraine in February 2022.

A further deal allowing U.K. companies to benefit from an EU plan to boost defense spending is still to be agreed.

Keir Starmer says Britain’s “back on the world stage” — but he’s facing scrutiny over a big compromise on fish.

Chinese firms own stakes in about 30 European ports, and that’s raising security concerns.

British negotiators are sitting down for a week of intensive talks with their EU counterparts ahead of a looming summit.

Athens has 13 open cases into alleged human rights violations involving migrants, the single largest number of incidents across the bloc.

The ghost vessel was “quite clearly” part of Moscow’s dark fleet, says one official.

Foreign Secretary David Lammy says Britain “believes in open trade” — and refuses to rule out retaliatory tariffs.

EU governments have hinted that agreement on fishing is their price to give ground on Keir Starmer’s own priorities.

Ankara is too important an ally to alienate, no matter what happens on the streets of Istanbul, politicians and officials tell POLITICO.

Top leaders meeting in Paris want to show the U.S. and Russia can’t carve up the continent by cutting out the EU and Ukraine.

A week after the tanker crash off the English coast, officials are trying to work out the damage done — and who is going to pick up the bill.

Eyeing Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin, Europe scrambles to ramp up production of military equipment and boost its defense capabilities.

European countries are pushing for new powers to squeeze Moscow’s shadow fleet after a spate of incidents in the Baltic Sea.

Labour’s decision to grant the geopolitical archipelago to Mauritius has sparked criticism from all sides.

“We’re taking it back,” says new U.S. president at his inauguration, triggering blowback from Moscow.

Baltic Sea country leaders are meeting in Helsinki after a series of incidents involving energy and data cables.

Ten countries are pushing for tough new restrictions — but Hungary and Slovakia are expected to oppose them.

Territorial sovereignty in the Aegean Sea has been a contentious issue between Greece and Turkey, whose summer economies rely heavily on tourism.