The Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) and Social Democrats (SPD) have launched a massive rearmament programme, aiming to ...

Friedrich Merz said that Europe needed to “achieve independence from the United States, step by step.” That won’t be easy, for Europe or for the United States.

Already, Merz has pledged to increase defense spending and put Paris, Warsaw, and London at the lead of a new policy to shore ...

In coalition talks, the Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) and Social Democrats (SPD) are preparing a huge increase in defence ...

"Whatever it takes" appears to be the motto of the Christian Democrats and Social Democrats, who are expected to form Germany's new government. They are set to reform borrowing limits to allow for ...

"An exception to the debt brake is practically unavoidable to ensure the Bundeswehr is adequately equipped," Defence ... Germany's first active combat operations since World War II. As it stands, ...

The continent has seen Washington as its most important ally and security guarantor since World War II. The invasion of ... Germany’s armed forces, the Bundeswehr, are widely considered weak ...

He will likely step into the highest office of Europe’s biggest economy and most powerful state just as the United States, under Donald Trump, abandons its post–World War II role on the continent.

The hundreds of billions of euros figures kicking around are between one-third and four-fifths of the entire United States ...