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

The spending package cleared its last parliamentary hurdle, paving the way for civilian and defense investments.

Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz wants to subsidize German industry. Other European governments worry about unfair ...

If de Gaulle were alive today, he would be smiling earlobe to earlobe for being so astute. Trump's perceived indifference to ...

No country in Europe is as much a product of enlightened postwar American diplomacy. Now adrift, it has begun to reckon with ...

Germany is on track for a sharp increase in military spending that could equip a bigger Bundeswehr—the German military—with ...

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Germany seized a decrepit tanker found adrift off its northern coast in January that is believed to be part of a shadow fleet used by Russia to circumvent oil sanctions, Spiegel news magazine reported ...

European weapons manufacturers from Thyssenkrupp AG to BAE Systems Plc and smaller drone makers stand to gain the most from ...

Germany’s total Ukraine aid hits €7bn in 2025, cementing Berlin as one of Kyiv’s top military supporters in Europe ...

The continent’s leaders hope a surge of investment, to fill a security void left by the United States, can ignite growth. It ...

The outgoing government created a special 100 billion-euro fund to modernize it, which also helped Berlin ... commitment to European allies. Merz said earlier this month that Germany and Europe ...