Volodymyr Zelenskyy has expressed openness to the potential deployment of Western troops to Ukraine to ensure the country's ...

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 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 ways to quickly increase their military budgets after the Trump administration signaled that Europe must take care of its own security and also su ...

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 ...

The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) retired to its sickbed as soon as Donald Trump won the presidential election ...

Such talks often drag on for weeks if not months in Germany, but Merz is in a hurry to reach a deal with Europe's biggest economy facing economic malaise and an upheaval in relations with the U.S.