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

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

Mr Merz’s conservatives and the Social Democrats are in negotiations to form a government after February's election. Read ...

German lawmakers have reached an agreement to exempt some defense spending from the nation’s tight rules on running up debt.

Under Germany's constitution, Merz needs a two-thirds majority to get the changes passed. With the support of the Greens and ...

German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz announced Friday his conservatives had struck a deal with the Greens on massively ...

Officials in Paris and Berlin are excited about the good relationship incoming German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has with ...

Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz urged sceptical lawmakers on Thursday to back his proposals for a massive increase in ...

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

A new deal with the Greens could allow for as much as €1 trillion in new spending for defense and infrastructure over the ...

Russia's westward push and U.S. indifference towards European worries may trigger a strong economic revival in the region, ...

BERLIN - German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz is set to make new concessions to the Greens on Friday in a last-ditch ...