Trump poised to launch new round of layoffs even as courts rule to reinstate employees President Donald Trump's administration is expected on Friday to move ahead with a second wave of mass ...

The German chancellor-in-waiting, Friedrich Merz, has won a vote in parliament to allow a huge increase in state borrowing that is set to super-charge the country’s military spending. The ...

Im Wahlkampf hatte CDU-Chef Merz die Schuldenbremse eisern verteidigt. Jetzt ist er bereit, die Schuldenregeln aufzuweichen. In seiner Fraktion sind nicht alle mit dem Kurswechsel einverstanden.

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 ...

Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz on Thursday made concessions to the Green Party in the hopes it would lend critically important votes to his multi-billion-euro ...

The early signs are unexpectedly promising. The first step towards Mr Merz being effective on the European stage is for him to forge a coalition with the centre-left Social Democrats at home ...

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 ...

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 ...

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’s conservatives and the Social Democratic Party (SPD), who are in talks to form a centrist coalition after last month’s election, want to create a 500-billion-euro ($546bn) fund for ...