In today’s edition of The Capitals, read about EU scrutiny on Italy’s rule of law amid a ministerial no-show, the Warsaw-Bucharest axis sparking backlash days before the vote, and so much more.

US President Donald Trump has long demanded that NATO partners spend more on defence. Germany now wants to comply. View on ...

BERLIN — Friedrich Merz succeeded Tuesday in his bid to become ... They are joined by the center-left Social Democrats led by outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz, who lost the national election in ...

Germany's interior minister said Thursday that the number of people turned back at the country’s borders increased by nearly half in the new government’s first week in ...