German soldiers participate in a ceremonial roll call on May 22 in Vilnius, Lithuania. Germany, which leads a multinational NATO task force in Lithuania, is in the process of deploying a 5,000-strong ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz pledged to build Europe's strongest military for Germany. Germany's shift in defense policy followed Russia's invasion of Ukraine and NATO goals. Experts highlighted ...

Germany’s Minister of Defense, Boris Pistorius, speaks at the Federation of German Industries Space Congress in Berlin Sept. 25. Credit: BDI/Christian Kruppa London — Germany will invest 35 billion ...

Friedrich Merz, the newly inaugurated German chancellor, will take a seat in the Oval Office on Thursday for his first in-person meeting with US President Donald Trump. The meeting comes as a series ...

Wolfgang Streeck, director emeritus of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, is in the front ranks of Europe’s social thinkers, having come out with some of the most ...

German Chancellor Scholz declared in 2022 that Germany was undertaking a societal and political sea change—Zeitenwende—on national security. Zeitenwende represents a cross-party consensus in Germany ...

LONDON — Eighty years ago, the Allies announced they had accepted Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender. What became known as Victory in Europe Day marked the end of World War II in Europe, prior to ...

Bill Whitaker is an award-winning journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent who has covered major news stories, domestically and across the globe, for more than four decades with CBS News. This past ...

In a historic turning point, the German parliament has authorised €1 trillion in new loans. Officially, it is being justified with the country’s defence and security needs as well as the renovation of ...

Mr. Merz needed two rounds of voting to become chancellor after a surprising defeat in Parliament hours earlier that threatened to hobble his new government. Jim Tankersley Christopher F. Schuetze ...

The Trump administration has sent an unmistakable message to Europe: You’re on your own. In three dizzying months, the White House has reversed decades’ worth of American foreign policy, pledged to ...