Germany approves tank sales to Ukraine, bowing to pressure
BERLIN — The German government said Tuesday it will deliver anti-aircraft tanks to Ukraine after facing strong pressure at home and abroad to abandon its reluctance to supply heavy weapons to Kyiv....
View ArticleGermany signals more Ukraine support, wavers on defense spending
BERLIN — The German parliament on Thursday instructed the government to boost military support for Ukraine and sent pointed warnings to China and Serbia over their support for Russia. However, the...
View ArticleFinland and Sweden ‘can count’ on Germany for protection and NATO membership...
BERLIN — Finland and Sweden “can count” on Germany’s support should they decide to join the NATO alliance, Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Tuesday, adding that both countries were already benefitting from...
View ArticleWeeks after snub, German president still waiting for call with Zelenskyy
BERLIN — German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier has had no contact with his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelenskyy since being declared unwelcome in Kyiv three weeks ago, with a German request...
View ArticleZelenskyy invites Scholz and Steinmeier to Kyiv after weeks of tension
BERLIN — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on Thursday invited German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and President Frank-Walter Steinmeier to Kyiv. An official from the German president’s office...
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Merz on the march: German opposition chief plays Ukraine card before elections
BERLIN — The road to victory in German elections runs through Kyiv. That seems to be the view of opposition leader Friedrich Merz, who stole a march on Chancellor Olaf Scholz this week by visiting the...
View ArticleScholz’s Social Democrats suffer crushing defeat in northern German state vote
KIEL, Germany — Germany’s center-right opposition scored a strong victory in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein on Sunday, dealing a blow to the Social Democratic Party (SPD) of...
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Emmanuel Macron’s big fat Franco-German to-do list
Emmanuel Macron is heading for Germany with the wind — and plenty of ambition — in his sails. Having won a second term as French president, Macron can claim to be the EU’s preeminent leader and to...
View ArticleMacron floats European ‘community’ open to Ukraine and UK
French President Emmanuel Macron used a speech on Europe Day to put forward a sweeping, avant-garde but detail-light proposal to redraw the political map of the Continent with a new organization that...
View ArticleMacron floats European ‘community’ open to Ukraine and UK
French President Emmanuel Macron used a speech on Europe Day to put forward a sweeping, avant-garde but detail-light proposal to redraw the political map of the Continent with a new organization that...
View ArticleBrussels plans to help EU countries confiscate assets frozen by sanctions
The European Commission will present a legal proposal to help EU countries confiscate assets frozen as part of the sanctions campaign against Russia, two officials with knowledge of the plan said...
View ArticleOlaf Scholz’s reputation on the line in big German vote
BERLIN — The chancellor is taking a chance. Olaf Scholz is getting personally involved in a big German state election campaign, helping to turn the vote into a mini-referendum on his leadership and...
View ArticleEU to increase military support funding for Ukraine to €2 billion
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell announced Friday that the EU will provide another €500 million in financial support to Ukraine’s military, bringing the total value of the bloc’s overall military...
View ArticleGermany to vote against EU plan to label nuclear as green but won’t sue
BERLIN — Germany will vote against the European Commission’s controversial “taxonomy” proposal that classes nuclear energy as green but won’t file a lawsuit against it, German officials told POLITICO....
View ArticleNATO officials ‘confident’ on Swedish, Finnish membership bids despite...
BERLIN — Turkish concerns will not derail the ambitions of Finland and Sweden to join NATO, senior alliance officials said on Sunday. Ankara has accused the two Nordic countries of supporting Kurdish...
View ArticleScholz’s SPD gets another shellacking in key German state election
Germany’s center-right Christian Democrats and the Greens emerged as winners in an important state election on Sunday that is likely to trigger tensions in Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s coalition...
View ArticleRussia must withdraw troops as part of peace deal, say Scholz and Zelenskyy
There should be no face-saving for Vladimir Putin at the expense of Ukrainian territorial integrity, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy agreed on a phone call...
View ArticleOlaf Scholz dismisses EU Parliament call to sanction Gerhard Schröder over...
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Thursday rejected a demand by the European Parliament to sanction Gerhard Schröder over his refusal to quit top jobs at Russian energy companies. Speaking to reporters...
View ArticlePolish president accuses Germany of breaking promises on tanks for Ukraine
Polish President Andrzej Duda on Tuesday accused the German government of breaking its word on an agreement to supply Warsaw with new tanks as compensation for Polish deliveries of Soviet-era tanks to...
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Olaf Scholz’s Ukrainian tank battle
BERLIN — Accusations of broken promises and spreading fake news. Criticism from within the government coalition’s own ranks. And a chancellor defending his course with references to Emperor Wilhelm...
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