Europe should welcome rather than rebuff U.S. President Donald Trump's call for other NATO members to ramp up their military spending, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Wednesday, stressing the importance of security to the continent.

The demand for Europe to pony up comes from a sometime Trump antagonist, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky — and it shows how the new US president is already turning things upside down across the world.

French President Emmanuel Macron says Europe must "wake up" and spend more on its defense as Trump returns, but how realistic is the suggestion?

French President Emmanuel Macron called on Europe Monday to "wake up" and spend more on defense in order to reduce its reliance on the United States for its security, in a speech to the French military as Donald Trump returns to power.

The French President called on Europe to spend more on defence to reduce their reliance on the United States for security.