Europeans are reconsidering their security and giving currency to an idea the U.S. has long sought to avoid: a nuclear-armed ...

EU chief Antonio Costa on Thursday hosted Germany's likely next leader Friedrich Merz for talks ahead of a key summit on ...

Having led his party, the Christian Democrats, to first place in Germany’s election last month, Mr. Merz swiftly assumed the ...

The successful completion of the probing negotiations for the winner of the Bundestag elections, the Christian Democratic ...

Already, Merz has pledged to increase defense spending and put Paris, Warsaw, and London at the lead of a new policy to shore ...

The German chancellor-in-waiting said he would like talks with France and Britain about sharing weapons, but not as a ...

Germany's would-be next chancellor, conservative leader Friedrich Merz, and the Social Democrats (SPD) with whom he is trying ...

The prospective partners in Germany’s next government say they will seek to loosen the nation’s rules on running up debt to ...

The president’s policies and his decision to force Ukraine into a peace deal with Russia have prompted Europe to take steps ...

BERLIN (Reuters) -German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD) have concluded ...

The prospect of a military spending boom by Germany unprecedented since the Cold War sent Europe's defence stocks soaring ...