Trump campaigned as a protector of free speech. Critics say his actions as president threaten it
First Amendment advocates say they've never seen freedom of speech under attack the way it has been in President Trump's ...
German Tourists Detained for Weeks, Then Deported From U.S.
Amid President Trump’s border crackdown, German news media have closely followed the treatment of two tourists who say they ...
US tariffs could extend Germany's recession, says bank
Germany's central bank president says US tariffs and retaliation to them could tip Europe's largest economy into recession ...
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Trump reignites Europe’s Franco-German engine
Officials in Paris and Berlin are excited about the good relationship incoming German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has with ...
Germany Readies to Finally Lead Europe, If Merz Can Pull It Off
With Europe experiencing its most devastating war since 1945 and President Donald Trump ripping up the transatlantic alliance ...
Commentary: France’s president is now the leader of the free world
Trump has pulled the rug out from under NATO and Ukraine, positioning French president Emmanuel Macron as the Free World’s ...
U.S. tariffs could thrust Germany into recession, central bank governor says
Ongoing U.S. tariffs could push Europe’s largest economy into a recession, German central bank President Joachim Nagel warned ...
Merz Challenges Germans to Make a Bold Strategic Shift. Will They Do It?
The likely next chancellor has staked his government on a move to increase military spending. But the window for change is ...
Friedrich Merz, German chancellor before his time
Even though negotiations to form a coalition have not yet begun, the head of the Christian Democratic Union party, which came ...
Putin says Ukrainians face choice of 'surrender or die' as Russia tightens squeeze in Kursk
President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia had trapped the remaining Ukrainian soldiers in its western Kursk ...
Impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol home after release from detention
Impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol was released from jail Saturday, one day after a court ruled his confinement was illegal ...
Opinion
Germany’s political upheaval and the transatlantic alliance’s uncertain future
Germany has emerged from its recent election with a grand coalition of the center-right CDU/CSU and the Social Democratic Party likely, but the rise of the far-right AfD party and its ...