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

Germany's likely chancellor-to-be announces a political deal to raise hundreds of billions of euros in extra spending.

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

Germany is on track for a sharp increase in military spending that could equip a bigger Bundeswehr—the German military—with ...

Germany has just passed a major reform to its constitutional debt brake, unlocking billions of euros in funding. One model ...

BERLIN – After snap parliamentary elections, Germany is set for a change in ... roughly double its count from the previous elections. Chancellor Olaf Scholz’s SPD suffered its worst-ever ...

Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel denied Thursday that she had covered up an intelligence report concluding that a ...

The agreement between centrist parties, led by the likely next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, was billed as a response to ...

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

Likely next chancellor Merz says he ‘cannot imagine’ deploying European troops in Ukraine under current circumstances, but ...

Merz and outgoing German Chancellor Olaf Scholz of the Social Democratic Party ... Winning such a majority for a special fund, however, would be a formidable challenge even in the current parliament.