Germany’s would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, won lawmakers’ approval Tuesday for ambitious plans to loosen the nation’s strict debt rules for higher defense spending as doubts mount about the ...

Details on a political deal to form a new German coalition government will be presented Wednesday by the conservative ...

Despite Donald Trump’s lurch into protectionism and coercion, Friedrich Merz believes a transatlantic trade deal can still be done.

After weeks of negotiations, the conservative CDU/CSU bloc and center-left SPD presented a coalition deal to form a new ...

The German parliament is set to choose Friedrich Merz as the Chancellor if his proposed coalition garners approval. The coalition between CDU, CSU, and SPD holds a slight majority. Approval from the ...

The agreement establishing a coalition government of the Christian Democrats (CDU/CSU) and Social Democrats (SPD) underscores ...

The far-right AfD is the largest opposition party ... compared with the CDU's 24%. AfD's co-leader claimed on X the far-right party is now "the strongest force in Germany." Germany leads allies ...

Germany's far-right AfD party topped a major poll for the first time on Wednesday in a sign of growing dissatisfaction with ...

BERLIN — Germany’s would-be next chancellor ... whose votes will be needed to get enough support. German opposition leader and Christian Democratic Union party chairman Friedrich Merz ...

When it enters office in May, Germany's new government wants to hit the ground running with a new military service scheme for ...

German opposition leader and Christian Democratic Union party chairman Friedrich Merz attend a meeting of the German federal parliament, Bundestag, at the Reichstag building in Berlin, Germany ...