"Do you think you can trust Putin?" German Brig. Gen. Ralf Hammerstein asks with a wry smile.
It's a rhetorical question to which most of Europe would give the same answer – no.
As the Trump administration continues to pursue a deal to end the war (...)
President Vladimir Putin has rejected an immediate and full ceasefire in Ukraine, agreeing only to halt attacks on energy infrastructure, following a call with US President Donald Trump.
The Russian leader declined to sign up to the comprehensive (...)
Germany's parliament on Tuesday passed a historic bill unlocking a record level of state borrowing for defence and infrastructure through amending the country's constitutionally enshrined fiscal rules.
The vote made it through the parliament with (...)
What happens in Berlin on Tuesday will impact the entire future of Europe's defense and its ongoing support for Ukraine.
Germany's Parliament, the Bundestag, is voting on whether to take the brakes off defense spending. This could pave the way for a (...)
Hundreds of flights have been canceled across Germany as airport workers stage a nationwide strike over pay, posing a major disruption for air travelers.
The industrial action, led by the trade union Verdi, began unexpectedly on Sunday at Hamburg (...)
Just over a week after his victory in Germany's federal elections, the country's likely next Chancellor Friedrich Merz is planning to hugely boost defense and infrastructure spending by loosening constitutional fiscal restraints known as the "debt (...)
A joint Israeli-Palestinian team that made a film chronicling the eviction of Palestinians from their homes in the occupied West Bank delivered a passionate speech calling out injustices faced by Palestinians on Sunday night after they won the Oscar (...)
A Tesla showroom in Manhattan became the center of intensifying protests on Saturday, as demonstrators opposing Elon Musk's role in federal workforce reductions clashed with authorities, leading to nine arrests.
The protest was part of the growing (...)
European leaders have reaffirmed their unwavering support for Ukraine following the tense and highly publicized Oval Office clash between U.S. President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance, and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy.
The dramatic (...)
Relations between Europe and the US are unquestionably in crisis, so merely keeping things together as French President Emmanuel Macron did at the White House on Monday stands as an achievement.
He did that by praising, flattering and gently (...)
Germany's chancellor-in-waiting didn't wait for the final results of his country's election on Sunday to herald a new era in Europe.
Declaring the US indifferent to this continent's fate, Friedrich Merz questioned the future of Nato and demanded (...)
Friedrich Merz's conservatives have won Germany's election, well ahead of rival parties but short of the 30% vote share they had expected.
"Let's celebrate tonight and in the morning we'll get to work," he told cheering supporters. He said he was (...)
Germans are casting their votes Sunday in a nationwide election that will shape the country's next government, with polls indicating a likely shift in the political landscape.
Polling stations opened at 8 a.m. (0700GMT) across nearly 90,000 (...)
Hamas on Thursday handed over the bodies of four Israeli hostages held in Gaza — the first time the group has released deceased captives since October 7, 2023.
They are said to include the bodies of Shiri Bibas, who was aged 32 when she and her sons (...)
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Opposition Leader Friedrich Merz faced off in a final debate on German television on Wednesday ahead of elections next Sunday.
During the debate the candidates touched on migration, the economy, and (...)
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has said the European Union can act "in an hour" if US President Donald Trump slaps threatened tariffs on the bloc.
Speaking in the first TV debate before snap elections later in the month, Scholz said his strategy for (...)
A Palestinian and an Israeli sit in a West Bank village at night.
They wonder aloud whether Basel will ever be able to freely visit Yuval's home in Israel, whether Basel's village will get building permits, and whether they will one day have (...)
Tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Berlin to protest what they see as a breach of a taboo in post-war German politics.
The protests came after some parties voted alongside the far-right party, Alternative for Germany (AfD), over a (...)
Germany's parliament descended into heckles and recriminations on Wednesday after a "firewall" against working with the far-right cracked.
A non-binding motion calling for tougher border and asylum rules passed with support from the far-right (...)
Denmark's Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen visited three European capitals on Tuesday, days after US President Donald Trump reiterated his interest in acquiring Greenland.
Over the space of a day, Frederiksen met with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz (...)
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz took an opportunity on the campaign trail Tuesday to criticize Elon Musk, telling CNN that the US billionaire "is intervening in favor of right-wing politicians all over Europe. And this is really disgusting".
Ahead of (...)
A two-year-old boy and a man aged 41 have been killed in a stabbing in a German park.
Police confirmed that a 28-year-old man from Afghanistan was arrested following the attack in Bavarian city of Aschaffenburg.
Two others were taken to hospital (...)
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is under fire from lawmakers from across the political spectrum — including his own foreign minister — for refusing to approve a further €3 billion in military aid for Ukraine unless it is funded with additional (...)
At least 100,000 scores by the pioneering 20th century Austrian-American composer Arnold Schoenberg have been destroyed in the Los Angeles wildfires.
The sheet music was kept at his family's music production company — which burnt down in the Pacific (...)
Germany's far right is in a buoyant mood.
On Saturday, while its conference was under way in the eastern city of Riesa, in Saxony, Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) laid out ambitions to close Germany's borders, resume buying Russian gas and, in (...)
