Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz is considering unlocking hundreds of billions in extra funding for the country’s military and infrastructure as coalition talks with Social Democrats ...

Donald Trump's controversial initiative to end the war in Ukraine has reignited the longstanding issue of how Europe can fend ...

President Trump is “pausing and reviewing our aid to ensure that it is contributing to a solution”, according to a White ...

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

Merz told journalists that his goal was to reach an agreement before the EU’s extraordinary defence summit on Thursday.

The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) retired to its sickbed as soon as Donald Trump won the presidential election ...

Friedrich Merz faces a host of political, economic and foreign policy challenges as he puts together a working coalition ...

A deal to end the war between Ukraine and Russia “is still very, very far away,” Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, adding that he expects to keep receiving American support despite his ...

Germany’s Friedrich Merz, poised to be his country’s next chancellor, said he thinks the explosive exchange between Ukrainian ...

FRIEDRICH Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country ...