With no appetite to slash pensions or hike taxes, European capitals are stretching the definition of defence spending before ...

The Ukrainian and Russian delegations attending their first direct peace talks in years in Turkey spent much of Thursday in the same country but in different cities, pointing to the deep divide ...

Trump, now, is not a footnote but a harbinger of how the style and conduct of foreign relations could change in the middle ...

Post-WWII Germany has long been wary of state power and unfettered spending − and that may stymie new chancellor’s plans.

Like many American leaders before him, US President Donald Trump is finding out that getting through to Russian President ...

Germany's conservative leader Friedrich Merz is set to be sworn in as chancellor on Tuesday with a mission to revive the ...

Germany's new chancellor Friedrich Merz aims to revive the economy, strengthen EU ties, and address far-right challenges.

New German Chancellor Friedrich Merz talks about his private exchanges with U.S. President Donald Trump, his own lack of ...

Now, even as President Donald Trump launches the biggest trade war in a century ... He made a name for himself in the 1990s as a fiscal hawk, only to be sidelined by the centrist Angela Merkel, who ...

Germany's army has been mocked for equipment failures, including helicopters that cannot fly and rifles that do not shoot straight.