Merz’s embrace of compromise with the SPD and the Greens (who are expected to play a role in the coalition) risks being seen ...

Under pressure from Trump and with Russia menacing, Germany's incoming leader plans to revamp the country's defense posture.

Working groups for Germany's election-winning conservatives and the centre-left Social Democrats will submit findings on a ...

Incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz is under growing pressure to win conservative policy concessions as coalition talks hit ...

The German chancellor-in-waiting, Friedrich Merz, has won a vote in parliament to allow a huge increase in state borrowing ...

Friedrich Merz, poised to become Germany’s next chancellor, is charting an unexpected course in relations with President ...

An incoming government wants to borrow much more to revamp the economy and rebuild the military. That means a change in the ...

Germany's budget committee cleared the way on Friday for another 3 billion euros ($3.25 billion) in military aid for Ukraine, ...

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

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

On the eve of the Bundestag approved the budget changes proposed by the future Chancellor Friedrich Merz to increase spending ...