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

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

Three goals are being pursued with Germany’s massive rearmament offensive: Breaking free from military dependence on the US, ...

T HE GERMAN state of North Rhine-Westphalia has long provided bodyguards to Armin Papperger. But since American and German spooks foiled a Russian plot to kill him last year, the boss of Rheinmetall, ...

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

European countries have broadly tried to wean themselves off a dependence on Russian oil in the more than three years since ...

The German military’s lack of preparedness comes at a time ... Germany's military weakness is due to chronic underinvestment. Germany hit NATO’s 2 percent of gross domestic product defense spending ...

On March 13, 2025, a public hearing was held in the budget committee of the German Bundestag on the planned amendment to the ...

NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte has congratulated German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his presumptive successor Friedrich ...

Even 35 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and reunification, Germany is a fragmented landscape of memories.

Friedrich Merz, almost assured to be Germany’s next chancellor, is ignoring conventional wisdom when it comes to relations ...