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

Germany's would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, won lawmakers' approval to loosen strict debt rules for higher defense ...

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. The victory ...

The lower house of the German Parliament voted to bankroll a massive militarization plan as a backstop against Russian aggression.

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

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 ...

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

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

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

Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political career that was once sidelined by his party’s iconic leader. BERLIN — ...

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

The German federal polls have closed, and the exit polls appear to have handed the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) a victory.