Chancellor Friedrich Merz for the first time publicly advocated spending up to 5% of the German economy on defense.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Wednesday called for the European Union's supply chain audit law to be scrapped, though ...

Now, another Western European NATO member has made a surprising announcement in favor of Trump’s 5 percent goal: Germany. The ...

BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany plans to allocate 1.5% of its economic output to infrastructure that has military uses, Chancellor ...

New German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Wednesday he will work to bring Europe and the U.S. together in their approach to ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz defended his government's new migration policy on Saturday, saying it remains in line with ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz believes that the debate over the share of defence spending as a percentage of economic ...

Post-WWII Germany has long been wary of state power and unfettered spending − and that may stymie new chancellor’s plans.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said his government’s top priority is to transform the nation’s armed forces into Europe’s ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Wednesday urged the West not to be divided on Ukraine and said he was working to ensure ...

For all these reasons, we are rooting for the success of Germany’s new chancellor, Friedrich Merz. He is a 69-year-old lawyer who leads Germany’s center-right Christian Democrats, the only ...

Johann Wadephul, Mr Merz’s foreign minister, said Berlin was ready to commit to spending 5 per cent of annual GDP on defence as demanded by Donald Trump, the US president. He said Germany would ...