Significantly, Merz began his speech by praising the pro-war and rearmament policies of his predecessor, Olaf Scholz (SPD).

Germany, France, the U.K. and Poland outmaneuvered the Kremlin by persuading Ukraine’s Zelensky to accept Trump’s cease-fire ...

New German Chancellor Friedrich Merz will be traveling to Rome to meet with Italian Prime Minister Georgia Meloni. Meanwhile, ...

The European Union remains, at least in theory, a union of sovereign nation-states. Even within the nearly identical Eurozone ...

Delegations from Russia and Ukraine are set to meet for peace talks in Turkey on Friday. But, Presidents Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky, nor US President Donald Trump, will be there following ...

And yet Germany’s leaders have struggled to come to grips with the full dimensions of the crisis. The prior government, a three-party coalition helmed by the center-left Social Democratic Party of ...

Post-WWII Germany has long been wary of state power and unfettered spending − and that may stymie new chancellor’s plans.

NATO Secretary-General Mark Rutte said Thursday that the organization's procurement agency is cooperating with police ...

The new chancellor’s economic gamble and socially conservative agenda test the limits of coalition unity, as Germany ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has criticized Russian President Vladimir Putin's absence from the Istanbul talks on Ukraine ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz believes that the debate over the share of defence spending as a percentage of economic ...

Spending 5% of GDP on defense would mean over $220 billion dollars a year for Germany. New Chancellor Olaf Scholz says the ...