A senior German lawmaker on Tuesday urged Germany and France to salvage a 100 billion euro ($116 billion) defence project by developing a shared combat system while allowing each country to use its own fighter jets.

The next day, Pistorius and Vautrin will be joined by Spanish Defence Minister Margarita Robles, the third country participating in FCAS. Madrid has largely managed to keep out of the dispute between France and Germany.

Support for Ukraine was driven primarily by those who backed Democratic nominee Kamala Harris in the 2024 election in the U.S. Some 29 percent of Harris voters said one of the top three reasons the U.S. should support Ukraine was to protect democracy, compared with 17 percent of supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump.

Germany, France and Spain will try this week to break a deadlock over Europe’s next-generation fighter jet programme, a project worth up to 100 billion euros ($117 billion) seen as vital for the region’s defence ambitions as the war in Ukraine grinds on.

The French and German defence ministers signed an agreement in Paris on Friday for a joint Franco-German led armaments project worth billions of euros, which includes the development of a next-generation main battle tank. German Defence Minister Boris ...

BERLIN—In February, the man who would become Germany’s new chancellor said the U.S. could no longer be trusted to defend his country and he would seek the protection of French and British nuclear arsenals. Five months later, the talks between Berlin ...

France looks to move a step closer to an elusive gold medal in men's basketball when it meets Germany at Accor Arena on Thursday in the semifinals of the 2024 Paris Olympics. The French are two wins away from their first gold medal after having earned ...

EMMANUEL MACRON, France’s president, had presumably hoped that a summit in Paris on February 26th would demonstrate European unity behind Ukraine. Instead it seems to have resulted in an unseemly spat with Germany and raised awkward questions over the ...

It was Germany pulling at hair, but it was France losing their heads. Astonishingly, Kathrin Hendrich’s 13th-minute red card for yanking the hair of France captain Griedge Mbock in the box only becomes a footnote in the grand scheme of Germany’s ...

It is best to ignore what’s on paper during tournaments. A week ago, Germany suffered their worst defeat, falling 4-1 to Sweden (a team now out of the tournament after losing to England on penalties). Thirteen minutes into Saturday’s quarter-final ...

French President Emmanuel Macron has condemned the ban, accusing the U.S. of “intimidation and coercion” that undermines European sovereignty.