The clasped hands of French and German leaders have long embodied the spirit of European unity. Emmanuel Macron and Friedrich ...

Ex-Chancellor Olaf Scholz is to receive a state-paid office with a staff of eight. Opposition parties say this is too much.

Germany’s decision to permanently station a combat brigade in Lithuania is more than a military deployment. It’s a strategic ...

Western allies have sought post-war German rearmament before. While German defence spending has been miserly for decades, it ...

The incoming German chancellor campaigned as a debt hawk. Then a source told him about Trump’s plans for NATO.

When Russia annexed Crimea in 2014, it was swiftly ejected from the G8, reverting the influential economic forum back to the ...

Germany has held its first ever "Veterans Day" to boost the image of the military as it races to find fresh recruits and a debate grows about whether to reinstate conscription.

Military leaders and analysts alike are questioning whether any level of battlefield attrition can alter Russia’s efforts to ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz meets US President Donald Trump in the White House for the first time. It might be the beginning of a terrible friendship. How did Merz's predecessors cope with the ...

That was a "personal turning point," said the 25-year-old studying at the prominent Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, who was spurred into becoming an armed forces reservist and now wants to work for ...