A massive plan to loosen Germany's debt rules and spend hundreds of billions on defence and infrastructure has run into ...

The CDU and SPD, likely coalition partners in Germany's next government, want to relax the debt brake for spending on defense ...

A massive plan to loosen Germany's debt rules and spend hundreds of billions on defence and infrastructure has run into ...

Germany's Green party on Monday threatened to torpedo plans put forward by likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz to invest ...

Election winner and Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz is relying on votes from the Greens to push through parliament a ...

Five days after parliamentary elections on February 23, the leaders of the two political parties in talks to form a coalition – Friedrich Merz, president of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU ...

However, it is expected that CSU leader Markus Söder and secretaries general Carsten Linnemann (CDU) and Martin Huber (CSU) will take part, as well as the likely future chancellor Friedrich Merz.

The names of the Christian Democratic Union of Germany (CDU) and the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) parties are written in watercolors on a sheet of watercolor paper. Germany's ...

Much is at stake if this does not work. Carsten Linnemann, the deputy leader of the CDU and the main man behind its election campaign, issued a stark warning in the German media: If there is no stable ...

(AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) Friedrich Merz, left, leader of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU), stand next to Secretary General Carsten Linnemann, right, after he receives flowers at the CDU’s ...

"Germany must once again assume a leading role in Europe — not from the top down, but with France, with Poland, with a strong European Union," said Carsten Linnemann, the CDU's general secretary ...