President Trump halted Ukraine military aid after a tense meeting with President Zelensky. WSJ’s Daniel Michaels explains how Europe is trying to back Kyiv and shore up its defenses without ...

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 ...

German opposition leader and Christian Democratic Union party chairman Friedrich Merz attend a meeting of the German federal parliament, Bundestag, at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany ...

Germany’s spending package cleared its last parliamentary hurdle, paving the way for civilian and defense investments to jolt the region’s economy and reduce its military reliance on the U.S ...

President Donald Trump's continued criticism of Germany’s failure to pay its defense bills looks to have pushed one of Europe's wealthiest nations into action. The president's criticism of ...

BERLIN — Germany's would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, won lawmakers' approval Tuesday for ambitious plans to loosen the nation's strict debt rules for higher defense spending as doubts ...