Germany's Rearmament, With Sophia Besch Germany Germany’s Rearmament, With Sophia Besch Sophia Besch, a senior fellow in the Europe Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, sits down ...

Berlin — In a landmark shift, Germany is set to embark on its most ambitious defense spending initiative since World War II. Lawmakers have embraced plans unveiled by Friedrich Merz, soon to take the ...

Hopes for an end to German stagnation in 2025 had to be quickly shelved. After the U-turn on fiscal stimulus and the new government coalition agreement, optimism returned to the country, only for it ...

BERLIN — On a cloudy day in mid-September, I biked across Germany's capital to meet up with Oliver Richtberg, a representative of the VDMA, at his organization's annual political conference. The VDMA ...

Buoyed by recent positive market sentiment for Europe's largest economy, attendees at the summit were united in their call for the new administration to step up and honour campaign promises. But the ...

BERLIN — Six weeks into his current term in office, President Trump was asked by a reporter about countries, like Germany, that for decades had not spent 2% of their GDPs on defense — despite, like ...