Germany’s Green party said it will reject a debt-financed package that would unleash hundreds billions of euros in defense and infrastructure spending, leaving chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz ...

Frederic Merz commented on Donald Trump's shifting views regarding NATO and Europe, stating that it is essential for ...

Germany’s chancellor-to-be, Friedrich Merz, has said he will reach out to France and Britain to discuss the sharing of ...

American presidents since Kennedy have wanted Europe to shoulder more of the burden of its own security. But not until President Donald Trump has a U.S. leader succeeded in getting Europeans to want ...

The president’s policies and his decision to force Ukraine into a peace deal with Russia have prompted Europe to take steps ...

The German chancellor-in-waiting said he would like talks with France and Britain about sharing weapons, but not as a ...

European Union leaders are holding emergency talks on Thursday on ways to quickly increase their military budgets after the Trump administration signaled that Europe must take care of its own ...

Leaders of the likely incoming coalition government announced plans to reform the debt brake and create a special investment ...

The prospective partners in Germany’s next government said Tuesday they will seek to loosen the nation’s rules on running up ...

Presumptive Chancellor Friedrich Merz said he would favor the reintroduction of a compulsory year in which young people could ...

Having led his party, the Christian Democrats, to first place in Germany’s election last month, Mr. Merz swiftly assumed the ...