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

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

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

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

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

Germany, lagging in its building goals to alleviate a housing shortage, needs to construct 320,000 new apartments each year ...

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

Friedrich Merz won German lawmakers’ approval Tuesday for ambitious plans to loosen the nation’s strict debt rules for higher ...

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

German lawmakers have reached an agreement to exempt some defense spending from the nation’s tight rules on running up debt.

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