The Ukraine crisis shows Boris Johnson must drop his opposition to a defence pact with the EU to allow the UK to quickly deploy forces around Europe, a Tory group says.

'We would have to start again with a blank sheet of paper as to how we build up that cooperation with our European partners'

‘Unacceptable’ lack of progress on alternative to EU’s Galileo project after Brexit, says committee.

Rejection of regular EU talks and Horizon dithering prove the PM is running scared of his party’s lunatic fringe.

A large number of our readers have asked us to factcheck a list of claims about the Lisbon Treaty, or “what will actually happen if we stay in the EU”, which has gone viral on social media.

We can’t do sanctions, defence or energy without Europe.

Strategy report setting out the big future challenges for the EU – and Scotland’s contribution to that European future

So is there a business case for CANZUK as a primary relationship for any of these four countries? Let’s look at where our potential partners currently sell goods and services.

“This period of not even acknowledging the EU is over” experts say.

The European Union (EU) is a unique and essential partner for NATO. Sharing strategic interests and facing similar threats and challenges, NATO and the EU work side by side in crisis management, on capability development, in providing support to their common partners in the east and south, as well as to address the challenges posed by growing strategic competition.

Plans to build a new royal yacht to drive post-Brexit trade deals have been scrapped with immediate effect.

Britain has signed up to a European Union defence agreement despite having severed ties with the EU.

The former head of MI6 says any Brexit makes security difficult to manage but "the harder the Brexit, the greater the damage". / The blunt warning comes from three men who have served at the very top of the British defence and security ...

Brussels’ former Brexit chief urges collaboration on shared challenges and reflects on tumultuous talks.

Last year was a record for foreign takeovers of UK companies, with 734 UK firms acquired by overseas buyers in 2021 —reflecting a 400% rise since 2015.

Phase two of the Brexit negotiations is starting and all eyes are on the future economic partnership. The other key issue – the future security partnership – is often neglected.

Citizens of Europe, if I am taking the liberty of addressing you directly, it is not only in the name of the history and values that unite us. It is because time is of the essence. In a few weeks’ time, the European elections will be decisive for the future of our continent.

The PM's controversial top aide will reportedly tour some of Britain's most highly classified national security sites as a review prepares to reshape billions of military spending.

Nancy Pelosi among those to highlight the issue, while UK representative says he hopes it is a case of ‘quality over quantity’.

Brexit is a Tory invention and pro-Europeans must still fight the prospect of EU exile, writes Will Hutton.

French president urges raft of reforms to EU including bloc-wide minimum wage, climate bank, and cyber defence agency.

Jeremy Hunt’s budget shows that leaving the EU is only paying off in a parallel universe.

Differences meant rival diplomats were discouraged from talking to one another.

In what follows, a group of leading social scientists explore these themes, explaining what has happened in the past, the situation the UK finds itself in now, and the issues that might confront us going forward. The collection is intended as a guide to the big questions confronting the country in the years to come.