SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — A group of 20 high school students from Potsdam, Germany has been all over the upper Midwest, including a tour of the KELOLAND studios Wednesday in downtown Sioux Falls.

Berlin — In a landmark shift, Germany is set to embark on its most ambitious defense spending initiative since World War II. Lawmakers have embraced plans unveiled by Friedrich Merz, soon to ...

Speaking during a news conference, Merz laid out a vision of a Germany restored to its former strength and reliability. “The future government, the future coalition, will reform and invest to ...

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It will also enable usually fiscally conservative Germany to create a €500 billion ($545 billion) fund for infrastructure. Robin Winkler, a senior economist at Deutsche Bank, called the debt ...

Germany's parliament on Tuesday passed a historic bill unlocking a record level of state borrowing for defence and infrastructure through amending the country's constitutionally enshrined fiscal ...

Germany is getting €1 trillion ($1.1 trillion) in additional funding virtually for free after bond markets reacted positively to its “historic” spending bill, Deutsche Bank AG Chairman ...

Germany is on track for a sharp increase in military spending that could equip a bigger Bundeswehr—the German military—with more armored vehicles, more air defense batteries, more warships ...

BERLIN — Germany's would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, won lawmakers' approval Tuesday for ambitious plans to loosen the nation's strict debt rules for higher defense spending as doubts ...

International students both bring billions of euros into Germany's fiscal coffers and help stimulate economic growth, according to a study published last week by the German Economic Institute (IW ...

Germany intends to nominate outgoing Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock for a United Nations posting. The German foreign office informed Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s office and other ministries Monday of ...