The agreement between centrist parties, led by the likely next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, was billed as a response to ...

Mr Merz’s conservatives and the Social Democrats are in negotiations to form a government after February's election. Read ...

German lawmakers have reached an agreement to exempt some defense spending from the nation’s tight rules on running up debt.

The likely next chancellor has staked his government on a move to increase military spending. But the window for change is ...

Germany's constitutional court threw out several challenges by opposition parties against a plan by the prospective coalition ...

German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz announced Friday his conservatives had struck a deal with the Greens on massively ...

Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz urged sceptical lawmakers on Thursday to back his proposals for a massive increase in ...

Officials in Paris and Berlin are excited about the good relationship incoming German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has with ...

Under Germany's constitution, Merz needs a two-thirds majority to get the changes passed. With the support of the Greens and ...

BERLIN - German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz is set to make new concessions to the Greens on Friday in a last-ditch ...

The deal jointly proposed by the center-right CDU, whose leader Friedrich Merz is likely Germany's next chancellor, and ...

Russia's westward push and U.S. indifference towards European worries may trigger a strong economic revival in the region, ...