The first year of the second Trump administration has demonstrated—if any more proof were needed—that the days when allies could rely on the United States to uphold world order are over. For the 80 ...

Breaking from his dithering predecessors Scholz and Merkel, Merz is playing an unusually active role as the defender of ...

Mr. Merz led his party to victory in February’s elections by promising to curb migration, to revitalize the economy and to reinvigorate the military. He has since been a disrupter of German taboos — ...

MATTHIAS MATTHIJS is Dean Acheson Associate Professor of International Political Economy at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies and Senior Fellow for Europe at the ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz sharply criticized the United States’ newly released national security strategy ...

After an earlier trip was postponed, his arrival in Beijing was a positive sign – but ties are not completely mended yet.

The administration’s policies will depend less on the written document than on rivalries in Mr Trump’s court—and on Mr ...

Some 1 million Syrians were welcomed in Germany after fleeing civil war. They are increasingly unwelcome in a country where ...

Chancellor Friedrich Merz said elements of a new US national security strategy unveiled last week are unacceptable to Europe and advised President Donald Trump to avoid going it alone.

Trump’s ideologically driven statement of strategic intent indicates that the United States could be willing to interfere ...

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German Chancellor Friedrich Merz urged the EU to allow technology-neutral CO₂ rules that could keep combustion engines alive beyond the 2035 ban. Merz’s appeal comes as Germany’s auto industry faces a ...