German government and opposition agree on €100B defense spending bill
BERLIN — After weeks of bickering, Germany’s governing coalition parties and the conservative opposition bloc agreed late Sunday night on a €100 billion special fund for military armament in response...
View Article5 things to know about Germany’s historic military investment fund
Germany has spent months touting its epochal shift toward a more muscular military policy. Now the country finally has a spending plan to make it happen. Three months after Chancellor Olaf Scholz...
View ArticleGermany announces new deal with Greece to send tanks to Ukraine
Germany will help get Soviet-era tanks from Greece to Ukraine by sending Athens modern German vehicles as a replacement, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced Tuesday. Scholz told reporters at the...
View ArticleManfred Weber elected president of European People’s Party
Manfred Weber was elected on Tuesday as president of the European People’s Party (EPP), the Continent’s main center-right political force. The election elevates the senior German member of the...
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Germany loses EU sway as Eastern Europe turns away over Russia
Ostpolitik is now Lostpolitik. For years, Germany was the undisputed leader of a bloc within a bloc — the voice and muscle of Central and Eastern European nations in the EU who looked to Berlin for...
View ArticleGermany to supply Ukraine with air defense and radar systems
Germany will step up weapon deliveries to Ukraine by sending modern air defense missiles and radar systems “in the coming weeks,” the country’s Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced Wednesday. Scholz has...
View ArticleSpain to send tanks, missiles to Ukraine, El Pais reports
Spain is ready to send Leopard battle tanks and anti-aircraft missiles to Ukraine, according to Spanish newspaper El Pais. The move would mark an increase of Spanish military support of Kyiv. Spain...
View ArticleScholz, once again, defends Germany over Ukraine support, Putin talks
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday was again forced to fend off criticism over Germany’s arms deliveries to Ukraine and his insistence on talking to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Speaking at...
View Article‘I don’t blame myself’: Merkel defends legacy on Russia and Ukraine
BERLIN — Angela Merkel defended her diplomatic legacy as German chancellor Tuesday, rejecting accusations that her policies while leading Europe’s largest economy for 16 years were indirectly to blame...
View ArticleGermany’s Scholz and Serbia’s Vučić clash over Kosovo, Russia sanctions
Tensions ran high between German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Serbian President Aleksandar Vučić at a press conference Friday evening where the two leaders disagreed not only over sanctions against...
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Olaf Scholz gets lost in communication over war in Ukraine
BERLIN — Olaf Scholz promised Germans direct, no-nonsense politics. Yet befuddlement and obfuscation have often reigned since the chancellor started selling his approach to the war in Ukraine. In...
View ArticleSlovakia’s PM urges Germany to accept Ukraine as EU candidate
BERLIN — Slovak Prime Minister Eduard Heger urged Olaf Scholz during a visit to Berlin to support Ukraine, Georgia and Moldova as EU membership candidates, while also calling on the German leader to...
View ArticleEU leaders to debate France’s halfway house for Ukraine idea
EU leaders next week are set to discuss — but not endorse — a French proposal for a “European Political Community,” which President Emmanuel Macron first floated in May as a middle-ground EU...
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EU countries unanimously back Ukraine — except on its bid to join the EU
EU countries are all for Ukraine in its war against Russia, but they are all over the map when it comes to Ukraine’s demand to be recognized as a candidate for EU membership. The European Commission...
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Envy on the Kyiv Express: Scholz, Draghi needle Macron over posh cabin
Chapeau, Monsieur le Président. Hours into an overnight train ride into Kyiv to meet Ukraine’s leader, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Italian Prime Minister Mario Draghi suddenly realized that...
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Germany, France and Italy back EU candidate status for Ukraine
The leaders of Germany, France, Italy and Romania on Thursday threw their weight behind accepting Ukraine and Moldova as EU membership candidates, laying to rest doubts over their stance amid Russia’s...
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Scholz adviser turns heads with appeal to consider future Russian relationship
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s top foreign policy aide raised eyebrows Monday night when he suggested Europe should focus more on preserving long-term relations with Russia and less on the specifics...
View ArticleGermany’s Scholz says EU must reform before it can admit Ukraine
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said Wednesday that the EU must reform its voting rules in key areas such as foreign policy before it can admit new member countries like Ukraine. Speaking to the...
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Ukraine: Not just a country, an EU candidate country
Ukraine — the country that Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded claiming that it was not a real country — is now officially a candidate country for membership of the European Union. In a historic...
View ArticleG7 to discuss Russian oil price cap via sanctions relief
A U.S. push for a price cap on Russian oil is set to become a major discussion point at the G7 summit in Elmau, Germany, according to officials, but there remains skepticism about the feasibility of...
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