Friedrich Merz, the incoming chancellor, persuaded lawmakers to let him spend more. Infrastructure will be the first order of ...

That's why those who have been voted out of office should have one last go at chiseling this huge burden into the German constitution. Friedrich Merz knows that he would not get a majority for ...

The new German chancellor, Friedrich Merz, is willing to spend the money, but the German constitution contains an amendment, passed during the last financial crisis (2009), that severely restricts ...

With the Trump administration expected to disengage from Europe, bloc leaders appear to be serious about banding together on ...

Conservative and center-left parties reached a deal to form a new German government on Wednesday after weeks of negotiations, paving the way for new leadership in Europe’s biggest economy after months ...

Hanno Berger, the German lawyer once dubbed the “mastermind” of Cum-Ex, filed another complaint at Germany’s top court against a conviction in the tax scandal that robbed billions of euros from ...

What both the CDU and SPD agree on is the country needs more money, which is why parliament is debating a change to Germany’s so-called “debt brake,” a constitutional amendment, first ...