Forget the back-slapping pol ready to banter about the Bundesliga; Friedrich Merz is a former corporate lawyer who wrote a ...

Such a plan would mark a step-change in Germany’s traditionally conservative approach to public borrowing. Berlin in 2009 ...

EU chief Antonio Costa on Thursday hosted Germany's likely next leader Friedrich Merz for talks ahead of a key summit on ...

The preliminary policy agreement that will form the basis for coalition talks was "no mean feat", said Friedrich Merz.

While Merz is already setting the scene for his chancellery with an unprecedented, debt-funded investment announcement, ...

Germany's CDU, CSU and SPD parties have produced an exploratory paper on their plans on various topics, including migration, ...

Already, Merz has pledged to increase defense spending and put Paris, Warsaw, and London at the lead of a new policy to shore ...

The rapid action by Friedrich Merz in the face of Donald Trump’s disruption highlights how the continent’s leaders need ...

The CDU/CSU and SPD are proposing to create a special fund of €500bn for infrastructure and defence by reforming the ...

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

European Union leaders are holding emergency summit talks to beef up their own military defenses and make sure Ukraine will ...

EDITORIAL. Germany's likely future chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has announced a historic infrastructure and defense investment ...