The German chancellor-in-waiting, Friedrich Merz, has won a vote in parliament to allow a huge increase in state borrowing that is set to super-charge the country’s military spending.

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

Germany's parliament has approved a massive spending surge aimed at reviving economic growth and boosting military funding, marking a departure from decades of fiscal conservatism. This decision, led ...

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

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

BERLIN - Germany's constitutional court on Monday threw out new challenges by opposition parties against a plan by the ...

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

German chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz said Tuesday that his proposed huge spending boost for defence was needed because of Russian President Vladimir Putin's 'war of aggression against Europe'.

In today’s edition of The Capitals, read about Meloni balancing EU and US interests in the “coalition of the willing” summit ...

Germany's lower house is voting on a major borrowing initiative to boost its economy amid US trade tensions. The plan, backed by Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz and the Greens, includes ...

Germany’s chancellor-to-be Friedrich Merz has agreed a deal with the Green party to inject hundreds of billions into the ...

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