Many had painted faces, and there was no shortage of beer. Merz was in celebratory mood too as he traveled to Brussels on March 6 and was garlanded by European leaders, before returning to work on ...

The spending plans dominated traditional Ash Wednesday beer tent gatherings of political parties in Bavaria. While Mr Merz cancelled his planned appearance, Markus Söder, Bavarian premier and ...

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Merz is also urging the European Union to relax its restrictions ... In his Ash Wednesday speech in a Bavarian beer tent on Wednesday, Söder boasted it was a success that the Greens would not be part ...

IG Metall chairwoman Christiane Benner (SPD), who spoke in Hanover, explicitly backed Berlin’s plans for a so-called special ...

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Merz's conservatives and Olaf Scholz's Social Democrats (SPD) agreed to loosen the country's constitutional "brake" on borrowing as Berlin seeks to ramp up defense spending. "Whether we will ...

With concessions from Merz’s conservative bloc such as extra climate protection funding, the Greens were in. The decision to unleash the power of the federal balance sheet to transform Germany ...

Bitkom Managing Director Bernhard Rohleder demands that the new government does not save on a digital pact for Germany. It is ...

Das Problem: Friedrich Merz has yet to begin his tenure as chancellor, but he’s already in a bit of a pickle. The anti-Merkel: The conservative leader and incoming chancellor campaigned on a vow to ...

Mr. Hermsmeier is a journalist who writes about Germany’s politics and society. Friedrich Merz didn’t waste time. Having led his party, the Christian Democrats, to first place in Germany’s ...

When I started drinking beer in college, almost all the beer I tried was thin adjunct lagers that had little in the way of malt flavors. After graduating and moving to Boston, I was introduced to ...