For Gundbert Scherf - the co-founder of Germany's Helsing, Europe's most valuable defence start-up - Russia's invasion of Ukraine changed everything.

The world champion Spain women's national team looks to defeat Germany for the first time in history and reach the Euro 2025 final in the sides' semifinal showdown in Zurich on Wednesday, July 23. Spain has never beaten Germany, the eight-time European champions, most recently losing in the bronze-medal match at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Radical protests in Berlin and Düsseldorf saw hundreds of people showing support for Syria's Islamist regime, glorifying violence, and clashing with Kurdish demonstrators. View on euronews

In very concrete terms, Germany is demonstrating leadership of Europe and the larger Atlantic area alliance in creating the path to greater defense spending.

For years, the association of armed drones with illegal targeted killings made them taboo in Germany. But things have begun to change. The post Germany Is Finally Getting Over Its Taboo on Armed Drones appeared first on World Politics Review.

Germany needs firm US assurances that it will quickly receive replacement Patriot anti-missile systems if it sends two of its own units to Ukraine, Defence Minister Boris Pistorius said Wednesday.But concern has grown as Washington wants European allies to first send Patriot systems from their own stocks to Ukraine and then wait for replacements from the United States.

Germany and France are pushing the European Union to prepare retaliatory tariffs against the United States unless the White House agrees to drop a fresh round of trade penalties by August 1, according to the Financial Times.