Friedrich Merz, the incoming chancellor, persuaded lawmakers to let him spend more. Infrastructure will be the first order of ...

Some remain wary of anything that might be seen as militarism even now, and the armed forces ... then escalate, then back. This is what makes me think we are facing a real threat." He argues Germany ...

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Under pressure from Trump and with Russia menacing, Germany's incoming leader plans to revamp the country's defense posture. Can he deliver?

BERLIN – In the winter of 2018, Friedrich Merz was a failed political talent touring Germany on a mission to ... thrown his hat in the ring to replace then-Chancellor Angela Merkel as leader ...

Lawmakers say that spending is now urgently needed ... a share of their economies. Since then, that share has soared in Britain and America, but fallen in Germany. The debt brake was added to ...

Germany’s economy is likely to be more or less stagnant in 2025 after shrinking for two years and the impact of U.S. tariffs ...