After decades of restraint, Germany is racing to rearm as Russia threatens Europe and U.S. security guarantees look shaky.

The German government has sharply rejected claims by U.S. Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that it sidelined patient autonomy during COVID-19.

Chancellor Friedrich Merz of Germany, making his New Year’s Eve address, said the change would force Europe to do more to defend itself.

The largest employer in the country’s defence sector is Airbus, the European aerospace giant whose Germany-based defence division makes aircraft including the Eurofighter Typhoon combat jet and the A400M cargo plane. It has about 38,000 people working on defence worldwide today, just over half of whom work in Germany, according to company data.

The co-leader of the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD) plans to expand the party's political and economic contacts in China following a multi-day visit, the Berliner Zeitung reported on Sunday.

Germany's justice ministry plans to present measures in the near future that would allow authorities to more effectively combat the use of artificial intelligence to manipulate images in ways that violate personal rights,

A fragile democracy, the Weimar Republic, briefly took hold in Germany before the Nazis seized power. Now, Weimar’s collapse is seen as a warning.

Germany gets less sun than the entire continental US, and yet almost a fifth of its electrical generation was done by solar power in 2025.