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Germany's coalition agreed a landmark deal to exempt defense spending from its harsh debt brakes, in addition to unveiling a $535 billion infrastructure pledge.

Woman aged 77 died of shrapnel wounds; Zelenskyy offers minerals deal signature and peace plan. What we know on day 1,106

No sooner had the PM charmed the president in the Oval Office than consensus over Ukraine – and the future of Nato – was starting to fall apart

As US President Donald Trump moves to reshape transatlantic ties, experts warn the EU must unite to counter global threats. Following Germany’s elections, RFI’s Jan van der Made spoke with Ralf Fücks, a former Green Party politician and head of the Center for Liberal Modernity think tank. He asked him…

European leaders to gather in London on Sunday to shore up support for ‘securing a just and enduring peace’ in Ukraine.

Ukraine's European allies, set to gather in London on Sunday, rallied behind President Volodymyr Zelensky after US President Donald Trump threw him out of the White House and accused him of not being "ready" for peace with Russia.

German chancellor and French president among those standing by Kyiv, as European vice-president vows to step up backing for Zelensky

Trump's negotiations and German elections may augur the end of collective security as we've known it.

Negotiators from German election winner Friedrich Merz’s conservative bloc and the center-left Social Democrats have started exploratory talks on a possible coalition government