Why Europe needs a common defence fund – outside the EU | Simon Nixon
It would be open to the UK, Norway and Switzerland, and give governments more bang for their buck as the continent rearms
Of all the shocks to have hit Europe over the past three months, none is more devastating than the realisation that the continent may no longer be able to count on a US security guarantee. Even if Donald Trump’s disdain for Europe had been telegraphed well in advance, few could have imagined a world in which a US president would publicly humiliate the head of state of a European ally in the Oval Office, cut off intelligence sharing in the middle of a war, or cook up a one-sided peace deal with Russia over the heads of Kyiv and its European allies.