European Union leaders committed to working together to bolster the continent’s defenses and to free up hundreds of billions ...

While Merz is already setting the scene for his chancellery with an unprecedented, debt-funded investment announcement, ...

Chancellor-to-be Friedrich Merz has agreed a deal with his likely coalition partner to inject hundreds of billions in extra funding into Germany’s military and infrastructure, in a “fiscal sea change” ...

“Friedrich Merz only has this one shot,” said Andrea ... a distinguished policy fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. The French, he added, “hope Germany will now move faster ...

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wants to be up to the task and has proposed an 800 billion euro (£651 ...

Interim president Ilie Bolojan is attending the European Council in Brussels on Thursday, March 6, to signal Romania’s position in favor of strengthening NATO's European pillar, supporting Ukraine, ...

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

CDU celebrations are muted because a 28.52pc vote share means a weaker negotiating position in coalition with the centre-Left ...

Outspoken Rheinmetall chief whose rising profile has come at personal risk sees transatlantic strains as ‘good for business’ ...