Friedrich Merz passed a major test as the outgoing parliament voted 513-207 in its final meeting to approve the plans.

The vote to unleash borrowing for the military and Ukraine is a “first major step towards a new European defense community,” says incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz.

Germany's parliament approved plans for a massive spending surge on Tuesday, throwing off decades of fiscal conservatism in hopes of reviving economic growth and scaling up military spending for a new ...

The large package of measures, aimed at waiving Germany's debt rules for defense spending and setting up an infrastructure ...

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

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

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

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

Berlin seals a deal to ramp up defense spending indefinitely.

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

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

Germany's would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, won lawmakers' approval Tuesday for ambitious plans to loosen the ...