Germany was long considered to be ahead of the pack on climate, but does that hold true under chancellor Friedrich Merz?During his short visit to the UN COP30 summit in Brazil last week, German ...

At the beginning of the year, German men aged 18 began to receive a compulsory questionnaire registering their fitness for army service under a law passed last month. Joining the army is voluntary for ...

Germany’s February election produced an unprecedented result. The center-right Christian Democratic Union, led by Friedrich Merz, won the most votes and the largest number of seats in the Bundestag.

Bill Whitaker is an award-winning journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent who has covered major news stories, domestically and across the globe, for more than four decades with CBS News. This past ...

A quarter century ago, German political scientist Harald Müller observed that “the very basic question of whether … Germany should rethink its renunciation of nuclear weapons has a very odd ...

Friedrich Merz, the newly inaugurated German chancellor, will take a seat in the Oval Office on Thursday for his first in-person meeting with US President Donald Trump. The meeting comes as a series ...

THESE DAYS the streets of Berlin run red with the blood of sacred cows. On June 24th Lars Klingbeil, the finance minister, unveiled plans to borrow vast sums for a debt-funded €500bn ($580bn) ...

THIS TIME they were invited. On May 22nd locals cheered as German tanks rolled through the streets of Vilnius, the Lithuanian capital once occupied by the Nazis. City buses flashed tributes to the ...