Talk of replacing the American nuclear umbrella over Europe with the small British and French nuclear armories is in the air, ...

The president is pulling back the security blanket that’s protected Europe since 1945 and imposing 25% tariffs on steel and ...

Germany's constitutional court threw out several challenges by opposition parties against a plan by the prospective coalition ...

German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz says he had secured the crucial backing of the Greens for a massive increase in state borrowing, clearing the way for the outgoing parliament to approve it ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz reached a tentative agreement with the Green party on a debt-funded spending ...

"There's a nice saying: tough times make strong people and strong people make good times. But good times make weak or naive people, and that's where we are right now," explains Daniel Schäfer, a ...

In today's edition of The Capitals, read about the narrow majority in the Dutch parliament calling on the Prime Minister to withdraw support for the Commission’s defence plan, the election of polar ...

Some world events can look different to those of us on this side of the Atlantic, also, more precisely, in Berlin. God knows, here too I’m frightened at ...

When Russian President Vladimir Putin launched his full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, he knew that he was ...

Orban, a staunch ally of Netanyahu, has made it clear that Hungary will not comply with the ICC arrest warrant against ...

Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz wants to alter Germany's strict fiscal rules to massively boost defence spending, the ...

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