Conservative leader Friedrich Merz said the next German government would have to cut costs despite his proposed €500 billion ($545 million) debt-backed financial package. "We will have to cut ...

The conversation with Germany’s likely next chancellor comes before this week’s EU leaders’ summit, Euractiv has learned. BERLIN – Germany's likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz will meet ...

Photo: Kevin Lamarque/Reuters/Amanda R. Gray/U.S. Navy ‘Germany is back,” incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz declared Friday, and it may even be true. He was announcing an unprecedented ...

This time it is Friedrich Merz, the supposedly steel-spined conservative who spent years critiquing Angela Merkel’s drift leftward, who has now managed to outdo even his predecessor’s talent for ...

Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz is set to break years of fiscal stringency to counter the erosion of the transatlantic alliance.