The European Commission will probably not impose a so-called excessive deficit procedure on Germany for breaching the EU's ...

In very concrete terms, Germany is demonstrating leadership of Europe and the larger Atlantic area alliance in creating the ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has accepted US accusations that Europe was doing too little to fund its own defence and ...

The countries' two defense ministers offered political backing at a "moment of truth" to a program rocked by industrial ...

U.K. Prime Minister Keir Starmer and German Chancellor Friedrich Merz have signed a treaty that pledges to tighten defense ...

German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz has unveiled a new coalition deal between the country’s two major centrist parties in a bold and optimistic speech in Berlin on Wednesday, hours after ...

The surprise drama in Germany’s Parliament had politicians across Europe concerned about what Mr. Merz’s stumble might mean for a continent that is increasingly looking to Germany for leadership.

In Germany, Europe’s most populous nation and its largest economy, Trump’s tariffs stoked fears of the end of trade-based prosperity.

In 2018, Germany committed to boosting its standing forces to 203,000 by 2025 — a target date that was later revised to 2031. The current standing size of the Germany army is just 181,000.

If Germany is unwilling to take the lead either for NATO in Europe or for Europe in support of Ukraine, and if Germany continues to prostrate itself to America's greatest adversary, China, why on ...

Germany is blazing the trail in Europe’s rearmament program. At around €1 trillion, Germany’s planned rearmament spending is 10 times greater than the special fund that Olaf Scholz's ...

Germany was Europe’s biggest buyer of Russian gas before the Ukraine invasion, but it has since reduced its direct imports of Russian pipeline gas to zero.