The SPD has long sought to change the country's Basic Law to weaken the "debt brake" - a strict rule prohibiting budget financing with new debt above a certain level ...

Incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz is under growing pressure to win conservative policy concessions as coalition talks hit ...

Donald Trump has studied the playbook of his favorite European leader. All Americans should, to see what happens when a ...

The real winners of the German election are the hard-right leader Alice Weidel and her White House friends, Elon Musk, J.D. Vance and Donald Trump. Whatever Friedrich Merz’s plans are, he must expect ...

The package, which will allow for a large increase in military expenditure, passed through the Bundesrat despite objections ...

Even 35 years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and reunification, Germany is a fragmented landscape of memories.

Middle powers, like Germany and South Africa, need to step up their collaboration while striving for a global order based on ...

Because Trump seems to believe he’s more pro-Israel than Schumer, he acts as if he has the right to weigh in on the validity ...

Germany's federal parliament approved a constitutional reform on Tuesday that will allow an increase in defense spending.

Friedrich Merz won German lawmakers’ approval Tuesday for ambitious plans to loosen the nation’s strict debt rules for higher ...

The controversial legislation — pushed by conservative Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz — was approved Tuesday in the lower house of parliament with 513 votes out of a total of 733, clearing the ...