German Chancellor Olaf Scholz declared in 2022 that Germany was undertaking a societal and political sea change on national security matters. The word he used for this sea change in thinking, ...

Germany's oldest party suffered a historic election ... have just passed a gigantic financial package for defense spending and infrastructure investments. And yet money remains a sticking point.

Only as recently as 2024 did Germany meet the NATO threshold of 2% spending on defense — marking the first time in more than 30 years. Hammerstein acknowledges that “every army in the world ...

The Bundesrat, Germany's House of Representatives for the ... This change is related to plans to increase defense spending and establish a special infrastructure fund of 500 billion euros.

BERLIN (AP) — Germany's would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, is asking lawmakers Tuesday to allow the country to put "whatever it takes" into defense as doubts mount about the strength of ...