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 ...

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 ...

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

Germany’s Minister of Defense, Boris Pistorius, speaks at the Federation of German Industries Space Congress in Berlin Sept. 25. Credit: BDI/Christian Kruppa London — Germany will invest 35 billion ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz pledged to build Europe's strongest military for Germany. Germany's shift in defense policy followed Russia's invasion of Ukraine and NATO goals. Experts highlighted ...

Friedrich Merz, the newly inaugurated German chancellor, will take a seat in the Oval Office on Thursday for his first in-person meeting with US President Donald Trump. The meeting comes as a series ...

Wolfgang Streeck, director emeritus of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, is in the front ranks of Europe’s social thinkers, having come out with some of the most ...

LONDON — Eighty years ago, the Allies announced they had accepted Nazi Germany's unconditional surrender. What became known as Victory in Europe Day marked the end of World War II in Europe, prior to ...

Bill Whitaker is an award-winning journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent who has covered major news stories, domestically and across the globe, for more than four decades with CBS News. This past ...