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

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

Germany's parliament approved plans for a massive spending surge on Tuesday, throwing off decades of fiscal conservatism in ...

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.

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

Germany’s would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, is asking lawmakers to allow the country to put “whatever it takes” into defense and to authorize an enormous fund for investment in its creaking in ...

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

The likely next chancellor has staked his government on a move to increase military spending. But the window for change is ...

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'.

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

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