Meanwhile central Europe – which incorporates major countries such as Hungary ... Witold Waszczykowski and his counterpart from Ukraine Pavlo Klimkin meet in Warsaw. Photo: Getty Images. A secret CIA ...

BRUSSELS – For Central and Eastern Europe, defence spending isn’t just diplomatic noise. Russia’s war in Ukraine, now in its third year, has turned dormant defence budgets into front-page news.

This is not by any means a new development: Illiberal governments across Central and Eastern Europe have long been ... Attila Kisbenedek/AFP via Getty Images Now, however, Budapest aims to ban ...

Your guide to what the 2024 US election means for Washington and the world Russia used the first round of talks with the US over ending the war in Ukraine to demand the withdrawal of Nato forces ...