Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz has struck a groundbreaking deal with the Green party. The agreement ends a tradition of fiscal austerity in order to rearm, help Ukraine and build infrastructure.

The agreement between centrist parties, led by the likely next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, was billed as a response to ...

German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz has secured the Greens' support for a €500 billion fund to revitalize infrastructure and overhaul borrowing rules. The plan aims to strengthen defense and ...

German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz said on Friday he had secured the crucial backing of the Greens for a massive ...

Even before Friday's news, economists in the March 10-14 Reuters poll broke a long spell of downgrades to 2025 euro zone ...

German lawmakers have reached an agreement to exempt some defense spending from the nation’s tight rules on running up debt.

Germany's constitutional court threw out several challenges by opposition parties against a plan by the prospective coalition ...

European markets were higher on Friday, with geopolitical developments, economic updates and corporate earnings in focus.

German bond yields, equities, and the euro rose as Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz and the Greens agreed to reform debt ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Euro zone shares and the euro rallied on Friday following news that German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz reached a tentative agreement with the Green party on a debt-funded spending ...

Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz reached an agreement with the Greens party on a fiscal reform package for ...