In 2024, the third year of the Russia-Ukraine war, EU imports of Russian fossil fuels totalled 21.9 billion euros. They sent 18.7 billion euros of financial aid to Kyiv that year

Elon Musk has supported a call for the US to withdraw from the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (Nato) and the United Nations (UN). This has sparked fear that the Trump administration, who has been putting ‘America First’,

The Loft of Shared Dreams in Davos underscored the need for collective vision and collaboration to address global issues, transform industries and redefine success.

NATO may not remain in its current form until the June 2025 summit, Friedrich Merz, the CDU/CSU candidate for German chancellor, said in a post-election interview with ARD and ZDF, suggesting that Europe may need to develop a new defense structure to replace it.

NATO needs an overhaul,' Musk posted to X, formerly Twitter, earlier this year, in response to Republican Senator Mike Lee writing: 'The Cold War is over. NATO's anachronistic.'