Chancellor Friedrich Merz is about to make history with his vow to create the 'strongest conventional army in Europe,' writes ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz emphasized the significance of Baltic security, marking a historic troop deployment in Lithuania to bolster NATO’s eastern flank amid Russian tension. Germany is ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz for the first time publicly advocated spending up to 5% of the German economy on defense.

Germany launches first permanent foreign military deployment since WWII, with 5,000 troops to be stationed in Lithuania by ...

Efforts to boost NATO commitments come under pressure from President Donald Trump who has complained that the United States foots too much of the bill for European security. Merz said Germany was ...

ANTALYA, Turkey (Reuters) - Germany on Thursday backed U.S. President Donald Trump's demand to more than double NATO's ...

BERLIN — The prospective partners in Germany’s next government ... by our mutual alliance commitments in the future as well,” he said in a reference to NATO. “But we also know that the ...

Parties in Germany, for instance ... But they could well get more aggressive if NATO’s commitment to mutual defense starts to look less ironclad. A future, more Europe-led NATO would likely ...