Because of Germany’s strong hiking tradition, these trails are well-known, but few international tourists have caught on. “The German Caminos still have all that lost charm of the French Way ...

Germany has suggested that it could boost defence spending to 5% of GDP, putting the country in line with US President Donald Trump's demands. Trump has long urged NATO partners to increase their ...

The city of Cologne in Germany saw two Ford plants come to a virtual standstill as the company decided to cut 14% of the workforce. For all the wrong reasons, this was a historic moment for Ford ...

Germany must have a stronger army than Britain, its chancellor has said, as he committed to spending 5 per cent of annual GDP on defence. In his first major address to the German parliament ...

Germany’s new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, said on Wednesday that his country’s ties with China are being “shaped by systemic rivalry and power politics”, in a first major speech to the ...

BERLIN — Germany will take more responsibility for Europe's defense by building the strongest army in the EU, conservative Chancellor Friedrich Merz said in a wide-ranging speech in the Bundestag on ...

Germany is in a prolonged economic crisis that has bred a subsequent crisis of democracy. The energy shock in the wake of the Russian attack on Ukraine in 2022 stalled the country’s recovery from the ...

The self-styled "king" of Germany and three of his senior "subjects" were arrested for attempting to overthrow the state, according to media reports. Peter Fitzek, 59, was taken into police ...

There were around 23,000 members of the Reichsbuerger movement in 2022, according to Germany's domestic intelligence agency. More than 2,000 of them were considered potentially violent.

Simply sign up to the German politics myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Berlin has banned “Kingdom of Germany”, a separatist organisation that sees modern German institutions as ...

For more than ten years, Peter Fitzek has been at the head of a fantasy state calling itself the "Kingdom of Germany." A spokeswoman for Germany's Federal Prosecutor's Office said the founder of ...