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

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

Under pressure from Trump and with Russia menacing, Germany's incoming leader plans to revamp the country's defense posture. Can he deliver?

Germany is transforming its defence and industrial policy with a €500 billion plan, responding to US disengagement and ...

Germany is putting thousands of troops in Lithuania, a NATO member that borders Russia. It's the first long-term deployment ...

Europe should resist any US efforts to include weapons purchases as part of a grand bargain on tariffs, the head of Germany’s ...

The spending package cleared its last parliamentary hurdle, paving the way for civilian and defense investments.

BERLIN — Germany's would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, won lawmakers' approval Tuesday for ambitious plans to loosen the nation's strict debt rules for higher defense spending as doubts ...

Peaking at 4.9% in 1963, it fell to an all-time low in 2005 of just 1.1%. Only as recently as 2024 did Germany meet the NATO ...

Some governments have already chosen which resources to mobilize to increase their military budget, while others are still ...

European defense spending, on average, declined. From the end of the Cold War until Russia’s 2014 invasion of Ukraine, most ...