Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany, making his New Year’s Eve address, said the change would force Europe to do more to ...

On Dec. 5, 2025, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz reached a significant milestone in his bid to build “Europe’s strongest ...

SUDHA DAVID-WILP is Vice President of External Relations and a Senior Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. LIANA FIX is Senior Fellow for Europe at the Council on Foreign Relations ...

It proposed that the United States divide Europe by supporting right-wing governments “with the goal of pulling them away” from the EU. It also proposed the formation of a “Core 5” to replace the G-7; ...

Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany's mainstream conservatives, has said that Europe must become independent from the United States in security matters, after his grouping won the biggest share of ...

The German foreign ministry’s announcement, which Russia denied, was the latest suggestion of growing Russian aggression in Europe.

LAST MONTH Olaf Scholz and Emmanuel Macron entered an EU summit with a plan. The German and French leaders agreed that a “strategic agenda” document, drawn up to set the EU’s priorities for the next ...

Twenty-five years after the launch of the euro, the European Union faces a serious predicament, with the two largest economies — Germany and France — struggling to improve their competitiveness with ...

Europe is responding to the growing conflict with the US by massively rearming. The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, yesterday presented the assembled heads of state and ...

Europe must seek to “achieve independence” from the United States, Germany’s likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz said after exit polls showed his opposition conservatives were on track to win Sunday ...

If it does not recognize and institutionalize Germany’s political centrality, Europe is doomed to indecision and irrelevance. The question is no longer whether Germany should lead Europe, but rather ...