Europe’s generous welfare states are coming under increasing strain as weak economic growth collides with rising demands on government budgets, particularly from aging populations.

BRUSSELS—President-elect Donald Trump’s tariff warnings are forcing Europe to confront an unwanted trade-off: Keep its own tariffs low and shoulder the economic costs, or throw up new barriers in a bid to protect vulnerable industries.

W hat did Donald Trump say over the phone to Mette Frederiksen, the Danish prime minister, on Wednesday? I don’t know which precise words he used, but I witnessed their impact.

Europe is running out of time to avoid wasting billions on building two rival fighter jets, the head of Airbus warned.

Still, the official announcement declined to use the word war to characterize Moscow’s activities outside Ukraine. Instead, the EU condemned Russians’ “destabilising” and “malicious actions.” The inability to describe acts of war as acts of war is part of a culture of distortion and denial regarding the subject of state-sponsored violence.

Donald Trump wants to sell Europe more gas. That sounds doable: the European Union needs more of it. And the trade might discourage the U.S. president-elect from slapping a 10% tariff on European goods which could,

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Elon Musk and MAGA are already disrupting the status quo, and Europe seems ill-prepared. For the last decade or more, Europe’s governments have been trying to resist covert influence operations from adversaries like Russia and China.

Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury said he could see the two separate European programmes working on new fighter jets and combat air systems being combined in future or at least designed to work together.

The European Union’s top migration official says deportations of migrants who entered the bloc illegally will be a priority this year

The leader of a prominent European Jewish organization says authorities across Europe need to immediately take action against a precipitous rise in antisemitism.