The head of Europe’s biggest security forum said regional powers were “totally on the sidelines” of major discussions — but that it was their “own fault.”

ANALYSIS: Europeans need to wean themselves off the US security system, and in Munich, Trump’s team will give them good reason to, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley

But in the 1960s, the Scandinavian nation scrapped the program under pressure from the United States, whose nuclear arsenal has shielded Europe for about 80 years. Sweden’s prime minister, Ulf Kristersson,

A wargame exercise demonstrated the limits of European decision-making at a time of U.S. pullback.

"We live in a new era in geopolitics," U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned Europe ahead of the Munich Security Conference.

Officials gather on Friday for Europe’s biggest annual security summit, where a speech by Vice President JD Vance last year started an unraveling of trans-Atlantic relations.

While the Epstein files have not directly led to any new investigations in the United States, several European nations are engulfed in scandal.

By John Irish and Sudip Kar-Gupta MUNICH, Feb 13 (Reuters) - Europe must turn its focus to long-term strategic thinking, including creating deep-strike capabilities and assessing how France's nuclear deterrent can fit into the bloc's future security architecture,