And yet Germany’s leaders have struggled to come to grips with the full dimensions of the crisis. The prior government, a three-party coalition helmed by the center-left Social Democratic Party of ...

New German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has expressed skepticism regarding a potential ban on the far-right AfD, which was ...

Ukraine and Russia will return to peace negotiations after more than three years of brutal warfare. Can they negotiate a ...

This was stated by German Chancellor Friedrich Merz in his first “government speech” to the ... “The days of Germany abstaining from important European policy issues are over,” the new chancellor said ...

The time Trump spent abroad has reinforced an approach to foreign policy that is “malleable” and “not always predictable,” Peter Baker said last night. “He went to the Middle East to re ...

For all these reasons, we are rooting for the success of Germany’s new chancellor, Friedrich Merz. He is a 69-year-old lawyer ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz speaks at the state party conference of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) Baden-Wuerttemberg. Bernd Weißbrod/dpa 33,623 people played the daily ...

KYIV - The former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, who resigned from the role in April, has said that she quit the post because she disagreed with President Donald Trump's foreign policy. Ambassador ...

"I respect the president’s right and responsibility to determine U.S. foreign policy ― with proper checks and balances by U.S. Congress," she said. "Unfortunately, the policy since the ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. As I noted in a prior post and Japan Times article, President Trump has become ...

I respect the president’s right and responsibility to determine U.S. foreign policy ― with proper checks and balances by U.S. Congress. It is the role of America’s Foreign Service to execute ...

and culture Weekly update on developments in India and its neighbors Curated guides on geopolitics and current affairs Foreign Policy economics columnist Adam Tooze, a history professor and a ...