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Newly minted Chancellor Friedrich Merz secured a coalition deal this week that opens the door to unlimited defense spending.
Germany is transforming its defence and industrial policy with a €500 billion plan, responding to US disengagement and ...
There is a growing belief that 2.5% of GDP is not nearly enough to pay for UK’s defence needs and the taxpayer alone cannot ...
Some governments have already chosen which resources to mobilize to increase their military budget, while others are still ...
Europe should resist any US efforts to include weapons purchases as part of a grand bargain on tariffs, the head of Germany’s ...
Germany is putting thousands of troops in Lithuania, a NATO member that borders Russia. It's the first long-term deployment ...
Conservatives and Social Democrats aim to boost defense spending, cut migration; Alternative for Germany (AfD) party, frozen ...
Germany's fiscal bonanza may boost European economic growth, but for its debt-laden neighbours the accompanying higher ...
NATO's European nations shouldn’t fear U.S. retrenchment — they should seize the opportunity to guarantee their own security.
Germany held general elections on Feb. 23 after the collapse of Scholz's three-way coalition on Nov. 6, the very day Trump was reelected to the White House. After the vote, Merz also pledged steps to ...