German Chancellor Friedrich Merz plans to make the Bundeswehr the "strongest conventional army in Europe." Other EU countries also have ambitious plans for their armed forces. DW takes a closer look.

German chancellor Friedrich Merz has sought to cool a bitter diplomatic row between Rome and Paris over Italian premier Giorgia Meloni’s exclusion from a group of European leaders co-ordinating with ...

New German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has attended the inaugural Mass of Pope Leo XIV in the Vatican. German Chancellor ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz stated that the deployment of European troops to Ukraine to perform the function of ...

Europe is a long way from talking about deploying troops in Ukraine as all its efforts are currently focused on securing an ...