Germany wants to invest hundreds of billions of additional euros in national defense and the renovation of its infrastructure ...

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

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

Macron will be in Berlin to meet with the incumbent chancellor, Olaf Scholz, a Social Democrat, to prepare the summit in ...

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

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

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

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

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

But, although he will not become chancellor for some weeks, Friedrich Merz, who won Germany’s election on February 23rd, has ...

It’s a new day in Europe. Gone are the halcyon years of unshakeable American commitment to Europe’s defense against Russia.

European markets were higher on Friday, with geopolitical developments, economic updates and corporate earnings in focus.