Losing faith in Washington as a military ally, Berlin wants to rip up the old fiscal orthodoxy. But it’s now a race against ...

Negotiators from German election winner Friedrich Merz’s conservative bloc and the center-left Social Democrats have started ...

German election winner says he will hold talks with other parties to adopt constitutional change in next 30 days ...

Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democrats took the highest portion of a record number of votes. An ascendant far right, crumbling ...

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyy had a conversation with Friedrich Merz, leader of the CDU party, which won the ...

A provision would exempt defence spending above 1% of GDP from debt brake rules, enabling Germany to increase military ...

The victory of the Christian Democratic leader in the February 23 German parliamentary elections was met with relief by ...

To immediately free up budgetary leeway to finance his country's rearmament, the incoming chancellor plans to vote in a ...

Friedrich Merz's political journey, stance on immigration, leadership style, and economic promises as the potential ...

With his party topping Germany's snap election poll, Friedrich Merz looks set to fulfil his ... and five years later he won a seat in the Bundestag where he quickly established himself as a ...

Friedrich Merz says ‘intervention’ from Washington ‘no less drastic, dramatic, and ultimately no less brazen, than the intervention that we have seen from Moscow’ ...

Opposition leader Friedrich Merz claimed victory and Chancellor Olaf Scholz conceded ... Merz’s conservatives won 208 seats in the 630-seat Bundestag, while the AfD won 152. The three parties in the ...