Under pressure from Trump and with Russia menacing, Germany's incoming leader plans to revamp the country's defense posture.

Working groups for Germany's election-winning conservatives and the centre-left Social Democrats will submit findings on a ...

Incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz is under growing pressure to win conservative policy concessions as coalition talks hit ...

It’s a rhetorical question to which most of Europe would give the same answer – no. As the Trump administration continues to ...

The German chancellor-in-waiting, Friedrich Merz, has won a vote in parliament to allow a huge increase in state borrowing ...

Friedrich Merz, poised to become Germany’s next chancellor, is charting an unexpected course in relations with President ...

The German military, which has seen its numbers dwindle from over half a million to just over 180,000, is now only the fifth largest in Europe.

Germany's would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, won lawmakers' approval to loosen strict debt rules for higher defense ...

On the eve of the Bundestag approved the budget changes proposed by the future Chancellor Friedrich Merz to increase spending ...

The prospective next German government’s plans to enable higher defense spending by loosening strict debt rules and to set up ...

Germany's budget committee cleared the way on Friday for another 3 billion euros ($3.25 billion) in military aid for Ukraine, ...