Germany boosts defense spending to 3.5% of GDP under PM Merz, amending debt laws and strengthening ties with the U.S. amid ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz's conservatives slipped into second place behind Germany's far right in a poll marking his ...

Olaf Scholz (SPD), Robert Habeck (Greens), Friedrich Merz (CDU) and Alice Weidel (AfD) party, take part in a TV debate in Berlin, Germany, Feb 16, 2025 Kay Nietfeld/ (c) dpa-Pool ...

Merz falls behind far right after backlash as AfD leads polls at 26% while conservatives slip to second place amid policy ...

Germany's heightened border checks to curb irregular migration come with a price tag. Meanwhile, it's another day of ...

Germany's outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz has hailed a multi-billion-euro spending package that passed the Bundestag on Tuesday as an important contribution to European defence efforts. Speaking ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz speaks during the last parliament session ahead of national's elections, at the Bundestag parliament in Berlin, Germany, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. Credit: AP/Ebrahim ...

Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz holds a joint press conference with Mette Frederiksen (not pictured), Prime Minister of Denmark, following their meeting at the Federal Chancellery.

It is also the starkest sign of the extraordinary turn taken by a country that took full receipt of the peace dividend after ...

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz attends a reception for carnival clubs from all over Germany with dancers and carnival officials at the chancellery in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025.

Germany's Warburg Bank, embroiled in the country's Cum-Ex tax scandal, has lost a legal bid to challenge a major tax ...