German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz on Sunday said he would like talks with France and Britain about sharing their nuclear weapons, but not as a substitute for US nuclear protection of Europe.

Preliminary coalition talks end successfully Parties hope to form coalition Merz promises tougher rules on immigration Targets 1-2% growth after 2 years of contraction Parties also plan to ramp up ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) — set to become Germany’s biggest opposition party when the new Bundestag convenes — is trying to capitalize on the situation, portraying Merz as a closet ...

Chancellor-in waiting seeks to finalise coalition talks with Social Democrats by April 20 Coalition aims to revitalise economy with unprecedented large state borrowing programme Merz wants strict ...

Friedrich Merz, poised to become Germany’s next chancellor, is charting an unexpected course in relations with President Trump’s administration. Unlike other European leaders rushing to curry ...

Germany's Greens party on Monday declared its opposition to Friedrich Merz's planned constitutional changes to massively boost defence and infrastructure spending, putting the proposal's future in ...

BERLIN: German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD) concluded preliminary talks on forming a coalition government on Saturday (Mar 8), promising to get ...

Merz, whose conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) emerged the biggest in February’s legislative elections, wants in particular to relax the strict limits imposed by the “debt brake ...

German centre-right leader Friedrich Merz faces a political showdown on two fronts over drastic plans to loosen deficit spending rules to allow substantial defence and infrastructure spending.

Germany’s Greens vowed to block plans by likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz for a massive increase in state borrowing but left room for compromise yesterday on measures to revamp the military ...

German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz is open to making concessions to the Greens to secure support for constitutional changes that would unleash hundreds of billions of euros in defense and ...

Alice Weidel, Alternative for Germany (AfD) federal chairwoman and candidate for chancellor, speaks on stage at the AfD election party, after the forecast of the German federal election for the ...