BERLIN, April 17. /TASS/. The European Union may increase its defense spending to 1 trillion euros by 2030, according to Armin Papperger, the CEO of Rheinmetall, Germany's leading defense company.

A decisive increase in defense spending began in 2022. In March 2025, the European Commission unveiled the ReArm EU program, ...

Newly minted Chancellor Friedrich Merz secured a coalition deal this week that opens the door to unlimited defense spending.

MICHAEL KIMMAGE is Professor of History at the Catholic University of America and the author of The Abandonment of the West: ...

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The AfD became the first German nationalist party to become the most popular since the foundation of the modern republic.

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NATO's European nations shouldn’t fear U.S. retrenchment — they should seize the opportunity to guarantee their own security.

Germany’s planned spending splurge has rightly been labelled a game-changer, but what is even more remarkable is that the ...