Germany’s would-be next chancellor Friedrich Merz is asking lawmakers to allow the country to put “whatever it takes” into ...

Newly elected Friedrich Merz has proposed nearly €1 trillion in new spending on defense and infrastructure for the sluggish ...

Macron will be in Berlin to meet with the incumbent chancellor, Olaf Scholz, a Social Democrat, to prepare the summit in ...

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

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

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

The agreement between Friedrich Merz, the likely next chancellor, and his potential coalition partners also includes big new ...

Berlin seals a deal to ramp up defense spending indefinitely.

The Greens vow to foil the chancellor-in-waiting’s historic plan to invest big in defense and infrastructure. But it may just ...

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

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

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