A bold move by Germany’s prime minister-in-waiting Friedrich Merz to ease longstanding caps on government spending has won ...

Working groups for Germany's election-winning conservatives and the centre-left Social Democrats will submit findings on a ...

Friedrich Merz, poised to become Germany’s next chancellor, is charting an unexpected course in relations with President ...

Already, Merz has pledged to increase defense spending and put Paris, Warsaw, and London at the lead of a new policy to shore up Ukraine’s sovereignty and defend Europe from Russia with or without the ...

Forget the back-slapping pol ready to banter about the Bundesliga; Friedrich Merz is a former corporate lawyer who wrote a ...

The German chancellor-in-waiting, Friedrich Merz, has won a vote in parliament to allow a huge increase in state borrowing ...

The likely next government should have substantial financial leeway, thanks to credit-financed special funds. However, it will also face big foreign policy challenges — almost all of which are linked ...

The centre-right CDU has emerged as the biggest party in the German election, making Merz the most likely to lead a government, following coalition negotiations.

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

After his conservative bloc came out ahead in German legislative elections with almost 30 percent of the vote, Friedrich Merz must now forge a coalition government. Merz has pledged to revive the ...

“Friedrich Merz only has this one shot,” said Andrea ... he said that “it’s clear that this administration is largely indifferent to Europe’s fate.” Analysts and fellow politicians ...