Surging renewable output overwhelmed Europe’s power grid in 2025, driving electricity prices below zero more often than ever ...

Europe must assert its interests more strongly to ensure peace and prosperity in 2026 amid challenges from Russian aggression ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany, making his New Year’s Eve address, said the change would force Europe to do more to ...

On December 11th Mark Rutte, the NATO secretary-general, said darkly that “we must be prepared for the scale of war our ...

SUDHA DAVID-WILP is Vice President of External Relations and a Senior Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. LIANA FIX is Senior Fellow for Europe at the Council on Foreign Relations ...

Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany's mainstream conservatives, has said that Europe must become independent from the United States in security matters, after his grouping won the biggest share of ...

(Bloomberg) -- Germany will unlock hundreds of billions of euros for defense and infrastructure investments in a dramatic shift that upends its ironclad controls on government borrowing. Chancellor-in ...

Twenty-five years after the launch of the euro, the European Union faces a serious predicament, with the two largest economies — Germany and France — struggling to improve their competitiveness with ...

Europe is responding to the growing conflict with the US by massively rearming. The President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, yesterday presented the assembled heads of state and ...

LAST MONTH Olaf Scholz and Emmanuel Macron entered an EU summit with a plan. The German and French leaders agreed that a “strategic agenda” document, drawn up to set the EU’s priorities for the next ...

Three times in the history of Germany, its chancellors have made strategic choices that opened the door to a better future for Europe. Today, there’s not just an opportunity but an urgent need for a ...

German soldiers participate in a ceremonial roll call on May 22 in Vilnius, Lithuania. Germany, which leads a multinational NATO task force in Lithuania, is in the process of deploying a 5,000-strong ...