Rheinmetall has become the popular way to play the European rearmament trend. Perhaps too popular. Following a 23% increase ...

Now that Europe wants to be insulated from global shocks, invest to make its economy greener and rearm quickly in order to ...

The German chancellor-in-waiting said he would like talks with France and Britain about sharing weapons, but not as a ...

The agreement between centrist parties, led by the likely next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, was billed as a response to ...

Germany’s next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, struck a deal to loosen borrowing limits, unleashing €500 billion for defence and infrastructure. Markets surged, while analysts debated its impact on ...

German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz said he had secured the crucial backing of the Greens for a massive increase in ...

Europe had been banking on a United States that wanted to make a deal on tariffs and trade. With little progress in that ...

German lawmakers have reached an agreement to exempt some defense spending from the nation’s tight rules on running up debt.

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Mr Merz’s conservatives and the Social Democrats are in negotiations to form a government after February's election. Read ...

The Trump administration’s warning last month that Europe must now take care of security in its own backyard raises troubling questions ...

Germany’s likely next chancellor on Thursday urged outgoing members of parliament to exempt some defense spending from the ...