Spending 5% of GDP on defense would mean over $220 billion dollars a year for Germany. New Chancellor Olaf Scholz says the ...

Germany's new government surprised NATO allies on Thursday by putting forward plans to boost defence spending.

The condemnation of the AfD has raised a fundamental dilemma of democracy: How does an open, free, pluralistic society ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz surprised NATO allies on Thursday by signalling plans to massively boost defence spending to ...

Margot Friedlaender, a Holocaust survivor who played an important role in Germany's remembrance culture ensuring the ...

First, the German government pushed out an unvetted report to brand the largest opposition party as ‘right-wing extremist.’ ...

On incendiary issues like migration, covid-19 or Gaza, the free exchange of opinions has given way to a more buttoned-up type ...

Europe regards itself as a liberal kind of place, complete with laws and institutions to ensure its citizens enjoy ...

TOM KREBS is Professor of Economics at the University of Mannheim, member of the German Minimum Wage Commission, and former ...

The co-leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has described the country's new Chancellor Friedrich Merz as a ...