Merz made his first key move on March 18 in the Bundestag, followed by a second on March 21 in the Bundesrat. Both moves ...

Though committed to the safety and survival of the Continent, Prime Minister Meloni is not entirely sanguine about the Macron ...

In getting over its phobia of debt, Buras said that Germany has finally acted as though Europe really had passed a ...

Giorgia Meloni is laboring to bring about a just and enduring peace that will safeguard Ukraine’s security and sovereignty — without provoking Moscow’s nuclear fury. And she is doing so with the ...

Friedrich Merz, almost assured to be Germany’s next chancellor, is ignoring conventional wisdom when it comes to relations with President Donald Trump and his disruptive “American first” agenda for ...

Those were the words of conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz in the German Bundestag as he sought to justify taking on massive new debts — a motion that was then ...

In Germany, parliament boosts defense spending The German parliament approved a historical $546 billion investment fund on ...

The conservatives of incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz and their likely center-left coalition partner, the Social Democratic Party (SPD), have agreed to demand the bloc withhold funds and suspend ...

The Italian prime minister is moderately supportive of Ukraine and European rearmament plans while also expressing her ...

Box office is down, producers are struggling and a promised tax break is still MIA. "If things don't change soon, the damage will be irreversible." ...

A bold move by Germany’s prime minister-in-waiting Friedrich Merz to ease longstanding caps on government spending has won ...

Simply sign up to the German politics myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Friedrich Merz’s €1tn spending package has cleared its final hurdle in Germany’s outgoing parliament as ...