Incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz is under growing pressure to win conservative policy concessions as coalition talks hit ...

However, it will also face big foreign policy challenges— almost all of which are linked to Donald Trump. Those were the ...

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

Friedrich Merz's debt-funded investment package is still facing unknowns, that could sink the legislation and doom his ...

FILE PHOTO: Friedrich Merz, chancellor-in-waiting and leader of Christian Democratic Union party (CDU), looks on as he ...

FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Germany's constitutional court has received more legal complaints from lawmakers against plans by ...

Even though negotiations to form a coalition have not yet begun, the head of the Christian Democratic Union party, which came ...

Likely next chancellor Merz says he ‘cannot imagine’ deploying European troops in Ukraine under current circumstances, but ...

German chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz said Tuesday that his proposed huge spending boost for defence was needed because ...

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

Chancellor-in-waiting uses outgoing Bundestag to loosen debt brake and unleash investments in defence and infrastructure ...

A new deal with the Greens could allow for as much as €1 trillion in new spending for defense and infrastructure over the ...