France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Poland, and Italy—convened in Paris and reached broad consensus on the necessity of ...

Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky has warned Russia are planning a fresh ground assault into eastern Ukraine, despite ...

The German military is facing a manpower crisis, with overall troop levels down despite a recruiting effort aimed at building ...

Outspoken Rheinmetall chief whose rising profile has come at personal risk sees transatlantic strains as ‘good for business’ ...

Germany is planning to pump billions into defense spending, but the need to better prepare goes well beyond the Bundeswehr. Schäfer is a former reservist with Germany's Rapid Reaction Force, served in ...

The agreement between centrist parties, led by the likely next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, was billed as a response to ...

The Greens vow to foil the chancellor-in-waiting’s historic plan to invest big in defense and infrastructure. But it may just ...

The likely next chancellor has staked his government on a move to increase military spending. But the window for change is ...

Germany’s Greens vowed to block plans by likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz for a massive increase in state borrowing but left room for compromise yesterday on measures to revamp the military ...

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