The Greens, despite being in favour of increased defence spending and loosening the debt brake, have signalled opposition to ...

Germany’s “Great Coalitions” are getting smaller. In the (then West German) Federal Republic in the 1980s, the centrist major parties gathered over 85% of the vote between them. In 2025, the former ...

Chancellor-to-be Friedrich Merz wants to expand investment in defence and infrastructure. The race to re-arm could be a ...

Security policy has become the most urgent challenge for Germany. Its prospective government isn't backing away from it. The ...

Germany is set to ramp up defence spending with the incoming government, saying it wants to invest hundreds of billions of ...

Germany's outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Wednesday discussed U.S. President ...

Leaders in Germany's likely next coalition have met to discuss Ukraine policy and security. Outgoing Foreign Minister ...

Friedrich Merz, Germany's likely next chancellor, said he wants a defense aid package for Ukraine worth roughly 3 billion ...

Germany's likely chancellor-to-be announces a political deal to raise hundreds of billions of euros in extra spending.

Bruising times for center-left parties have U.K. Labour looking abroad — and trying to dodge the same pitfalls.

Center-right election winner Friedrich Merz, who is trying to form a coalition government with the center-left Social ...