In many ways, the place of human rights in US foreign policy is simply returning to its pre-World War II norm.

The Kremlin believes the German economy, reeling from two consecutive years of recession, is struggling because Berlin has ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz predicts GDP growth next year after three stagnant years. His approval rating is up, and so ...

Russia has given an ultimatum to Ukraine: either accept Vladimir Putin’s terms or be ready for full surrender. In Ukraine, ...

According to George Hegel, “The only thing we can learn from history is that we don’t learn from history.” In an article ...

Whoever wanted to dominate Europe had to dominate the Vennbahn. It broke up countries, sparked conflicts and divided ...

When a major opposition figure rents a thirty million hall to celebrate his birthday and all he could come up with were shouts of hunger, you begin to wonder whether Kafka’s celebrated hunger artist ...

Simply sign up to the German economy myFT Digest -- delivered directly ... Merz is Germany’s second-oldest chancellor at the start of his term after Konrad Adenauer who was 73 when he was ...

Germany’s Social Democrats have backed a treaty for a ... in Europe’s largest economy. The conservative-SPD coalition was the only path to a majority government after both major parties ...

From almost the moment Adolf Hitler took office as chancellor of Germany, tariffs were at the top of his government’s economic agenda ... imposed by the Treaty of Versailles, of the need ...

The Treaty of Versailles, which was signed on June 28, 1919, was intended to bring peace following World War I — but instead produced a greater war, World War 2. After Germany ... a colossal strain on ...