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 ...

The agreement between Friedrich Merz, the likely next chancellor, and his potential coalition partners also includes big new ...

Having led his party, the Christian Democrats, to first place in Germany’s election last month, Mr. Merz swiftly assumed the ...

In Germany, coalition governments are typically formed through a two-step process: parties first engage in exploratory talks ...

Chancellor-in-waiting Merz wants to form a coalition by Easter and has warned it was "five minutes to midnight" for Europe to ...

The plan is for Germany to have a new government in place by mid-April that would end around half a year of political ...

Election winner Friedrich Merz's conservative CDU, its Bavarian sister party CSU, and the Social Democrats (SPD) have taken a major step toward forming a coalition government, the heads of the parties ...

We simply must become stronger together in nuclear deterrence in Europe,' Merz, expected to become Germany's next chancellor, ...

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

Merz, a longtime Atlanticist who had previously baulked at financing public spending through large-scale debt, has quickly ...

The successful completion of the probing negotiations for the winner of the Bundestag elections, the Christian Democratic ...