The Latest Breaking News from Olaf Scholz

If you’d asked experts just a fortnight ago what the key features of Germany’s approach to foreign and defence policy were, there would have been several strands. Alignment with the west, and of course membership of the EU and Nato would have been a feature. Striving for strong transatlantic links…

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said he had asked German Chancellor Olaf Scholz on Tuesday to help close the skies over Ukraine to halt the shelling of civilians by Russia.

Germany reverses ban on supplying lethal weapons to conflict zones, beefs up defence spending and halts Nord Stream 2.

How Putin’s Aggression Is Changing Berlin

Russian President Vladimir Putin has inadvertently achieved what Western allies have long struggled to: get Germany to step up to its role as a major global power with an assertive foreign policy backed by a strong military despite its World War guilt, reported Reuters. German Chancellor Olaf Scholz announced on…

WASHINGTON — Russian President Vladimir Putin’s brazen and unprovoked assault on Ukraine is fast turning his fears of a more resolute Europe, and potentially expanded NATO alliance, into a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has inadvertently achieved what Western allies have long struggled to: get Germany to step up to its role as a major global power with an assertive foreign policy backed by a strong military despite its World War guilt.

Ursula von der Leyen says stations will ‘no longer be able to spread their lies to justify Putin’s war’

Germany’s stunning decision to send anti-tank weapons and surface-to-air missiles to Ukraine — citing “a new reality” — is nothing less than a historic break with its post-World War II foreign and security policy

The measure would mark the first time the 27-nation bloc finances the purchase and delivery of weapons and equipment to a country under attack.

Putin had calculated a divided America and Europe would make it hard to punish him for invading Ukraine.