Friedrich Merz, likely to be Germany’s next chancellor, is already shaping Europe’s response as Donald Trump aligns the US ...

European Union leaders are holding emergency talks on ways to quickly increase their military budgets after the Trump ...

Now, as EU leaders gather at an emergency summit in Brussels today, there is almost universal recognition that Europe needs to step up and pay for its own defences. They are talking of spending ...

Germany has finally decided to join the party – but Europe may come to regret it. After two decades of limited borrowing and ...

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

European Union leaders are holding emergency summit talks to beef up their own military defenses and make sure Ukraine will ...

Germany is the latest European country to shift to the right, following last weekend’s elections.  Economic decline is a big ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz, the country's presumptive next chancellor, on Wednesday discussed Europe's defence ...

The pound jumped to a four-month high against the dollar as Donald Trump’s tariff plans backfired. Sterling rose above $1.29 ...

Mr Merz revealed plans for two changes to the debt brake, a constitutional provision in place since 2009 that lets the ...

The first step towards Mr Merz being effective on the European stage is for him to forge a coalition with the centre-left ...

Berlin may have found a way to rearm despite balanced-budget restraints.