Earlier this year, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz pledged to build Europe’s strongest army – a tall order for a country ...

German lawmakers have unveiled a new military service plan mandating all 18-year-old men to indicate their suitability to ...

The good news for Friedrich Merz, Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting, is that he will need only one coalition partner. Merz’s ...

As it became clear that President Trump was in earnest about reducing America’s military commitment to NATO and European defense, many leaders on the other side of the Atlantic were in a state of ...

US President Donald Trump can feel vindicated: Germany's new foreign minister, Johann Wadephul, said this week that the government had accepted the president's demand to invest 5% of GDP in defense.

A few weeks ago, I wrote a story for TIME magazine about Germany’s role in Europe, and how its strong competitiveness was creating imbalances within the euro zone that were at the heart of the current ...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's bold step to rip up its fiscal rulebook could be a game-changer for Europe's stuttering economy, reestablishing its biggest nation as the powerhouse of a lethargic bloc ...

German soldiers participate in a ceremonial roll call on May 22 in Vilnius, Lithuania. Germany, which leads a multinational NATO task force in Lithuania, is in the process of deploying a 5,000-strong ...

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 ...

The latest data on food irradiation in Europe shows use of the technique is continuing to go down. Every year, member ...

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 ...

It was a late September night when muffled blasts and a stream of bubbles broke the surface of the Baltic Sea. Explosions had ripped through the two Nord Stream gas pipelines, Russia’s gas highway ...