German leaders intend to ramp up defense spending and build the most powerful armed forces in Europe, but shadows of World ...

After years of sputtering and frustration, the Franco-German engine – the most powerful force within Europe – is humming ...

Once the pride of the nation, Germany’s car industry is reeling from an annus horribilis of poor sales, job losses and the threat of unprecedented factory closures.

A generation ago, the idea of German rearmament was unthinkable, even morally repulsive to most of the country’s citizens and political parties. The wounds of the Second World War were still raw ...

BERLIN - Some U.S. lawmakers do not understand the scale of Russia's rearmament campaign, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Friday, a day after he held talks with U.S. President Donald ...

Some U.S. lawmakers do not understand the scale of Russia's rearmament campaign, German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said on Friday, a day after he held talks with U.S. President Donald Trump in the ...

German rearmament is a welcome 'war dividend' Some fear echoes of history, but experts call today’s rearmament modest ...

But the new exceptions will not be enough to put the German economy on a sustainable growth path that benefits workers. Although Merz wants to spend on the country’s rearmament and infrastructure, ...

German defence spending has surged by almost 80 per cent since 2020, reaching over €90bn last year, according to Nato estimates, and Berlin’s rearmament push is only set to intensify ...

Hitler did not refer specifically to the trade war he had launched that afternoon, just as he did not mention the rearmament plans he had discussed with his cabinet the previous day.

Positioning itself to be the eastern anchor of European rearmament, Warsaw plans to increase military spending to at least 5 percent of GDP, while it brokers a Trump-administration pledge to ...