With most of the money earmarked to upgrade Germany's defense capabilities and infrastructure, there are concerns that Berlin may miss the chance to shore up growing industries. "A large chunk of ...

Germany's conservatives, who are set to lead the next government, on Tuesday argued that the country should quickly reintroduce compulsory military service. Friedrich Merz, head of the CDU/CSU bloc ...

Nowhere is that shift as prominent as in Germany. Its armed forces, known as the Bundeswehr, have been the victim of years of underinvestment – but that is set to change. Presumptive Chancellor ...

(U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Tamillyah Jo/Wikimedia Commons via Courthouse News) BERLIN (AFP) — Germany's conservatives, who are set to lead the next government, on Tuesday argued that the country should ...

Mr. Hermsmeier is a journalist who writes about Germany’s politics and society. Friedrich Merz didn’t waste time. Having led his party, the Christian Democrats, to first place in Germany’s ...

Election winner Friedrich Merz's conservative CDU, its Bavarian sister party CSU, and the Social Democrats (SPD) have taken a major step toward forming a coalition government, the heads of the ...

Germany will unlock hundreds of billions of euros for defense and infrastructure investments in a dramatic shift that upends its ironclad controls on government borrowing. Chancellor-in-waiting ...

BERLIN - Germany’s conservatives, who are set to lead the next government, on March 4 argued that the country should quickly reintroduce compulsory military service. Mr Friedrich Merz ...

Germany's conservatives who are set to lead the next government argued yesterday that the country should quickly reintroduce compulsory military service. Friedrich Merz, head of the CDU/CSU bloc ...

Germany’s previous coalition government could not agree on necessary measures to achieve the binding national 2030 climate targets and a number of political issues were left unresolved. But in ...