The talks on Tuesday come as the Europeans scramble to come up with a united position after a US policy shift on the three-year conflict under President Donald Trump.

Germany's conservative leader and would-be next chancellor Friedrich Merz has agreed what amounts to a fiscal policy ...

Germany’s likely next leader Friedrich Merz was set yesterday to defend his unprecedented plans to massively ramp up defense ...

BERLIN (Reuters) -German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD) have concluded ...

Germany's conservative bloc is set to begin coalition talks with the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) of outgoing ...

Germany’s “Great Coalitions” are getting smaller. In the (then West German) Federal Republic in the 1980s, the centrist major parties gathered over 85% of the vote between them. In 2025, the former ...

Germany's likely next leader Friedrich Merz said Thursday urgent action was needed to boost the country's under-resourced ...

Merz’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Social Democrats (SPD) of outgoing chancellor Olaf Scholz were involved in the talks. Friedrich Merz is most likely to become the next German chancellor ...

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

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One of the nation’s leading liberal arts colleges, St. Olaf offers an academically rigorous education with a vibrant faith tradition. A St. Olaf College education develops the habits of mind and ...