For all these reasons, we are rooting for the success of Germany’s new chancellor, Friedrich Merz. He is a 69-year-old lawyer ...

Germany has tightened its border controls, and interior minister Alexander Dobrindt announced increased measures against ...

Germany, France, the U.K. and Poland outmaneuvered the Kremlin by persuading Ukraine’s Zelensky to accept Trump’s cease-fire ...

A Russian drone struck a passenger bus in Ukraine’s northeastern Sumy region Saturday, killing nine people and injuring four ...

European leaders agreed on Friday to press ahead with joint action against Russia over the failure to agree to a ceasefire in ...

Significantly, Merz began his speech by praising the pro-war and rearmament policies of his predecessor, Olaf Scholz (SPD).

The European Union remains, at least in theory, a union of sovereign nation-states. Even within the nearly identical Eurozone ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has urged his European partners to do everything they can to maintain good relations with ...

Friedrich Merz told German newspaper Die Zeit that “Nord Stream 2 currently has no operating licence, and that is not ...

Delegations from Russia and Ukraine are set to meet for peace talks in Turkey on Friday. But, Presidents Vladimir Putin and Volodymyr Zelensky, nor US President Donald Trump, will be there following ...

And yet Germany’s leaders have struggled to come to grips with the full dimensions of the crisis. The prior government, a three-party coalition helmed by the center-left Social Democratic Party of ...

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