“This is about survival.” Under the plan approved by the Bundestag, defense spending above 1 percent of gross domestic product would be exempted from Germany’s constitutionally enshrined ...

Photo Illustration: JJ Lin BERLIN—Germany’s mammoth spending package cleared its last parliamentary hurdle, paving the way for as much as €1 trillion in civilian and defense investments to ...

Germany’s spending package cleared its ... bureaucratic and inefficient procurement processes at the Defense Ministry to ensure that the extra money borrowed on capital markets can actually ...

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 ...

who was previously state secretary in Germany's Defense Ministry. But he warned that Germany also needed to step up recruitment. Germany has only 180,000 soldiers today, Thomas Silberhorn told DW ...

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 ...

Rheinmetall, Germany’s largest defense contractor, is looking to take over idle Volkswagen plants to expand its production capacity as Europe ramps up military spending. The company has tripled in ...

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 ...