Under Germany's constitution, Merz needs a two-thirds majority to get the changes passed. With the support of the Greens and ...

Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz wants to alter Germany's strict fiscal rules to massively boost defence spending, the ...

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

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

A new deal with the Greens could allow for as much as €1 trillion in new spending for defense and infrastructure over the ...

German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz announced Friday his conservatives had struck a deal with the Greens on massively ...

The selloff in Germany’s bonds spilled over to a second week as Chancellor-elect Friedrich Merz won crucial political backing ...

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

Forget the back-slapping pol ready to banter about the Bundesliga; Friedrich Merz is a former corporate lawyer who wrote a ...

German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz said today he had secured the crucial backing of the Greens for a massive ...

Nach dem Wahlsieg der Union am 23. Februar hat Unions-Kanzlerkandidat Friedrich Merz sein Wahlversprechen, zu einer ...

By Andreas Rinke, Holger Hansen and Sarah Marsh BERLIN (Reuters) -German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz said on Friday ...