The prospective next German government’s plans to enable higher defense spending by loosening strict debt rules and to set up ...

Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz wants to subsidize German industry. Other European governments worry about unfair ...

Germany’s would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, won lawmakers’ approval Tuesday for ambitious plans to loosen the ...

Ahead of Friedrich Merz's arrival in power in Berlin, several leaders are pushing for Eurobonds to fund the continent's ...

Workers on Wednesday rearranged the blue seats in the chamber of the lower house of parliament, or Bundestag. After each ...

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

Newly elected Friedrich Merz has proposed nearly €1 trillion in new spending on defense and infrastructure for the sluggish ...

The lower house of the German Parliament voted to bankroll a massive militarization plan as a backstop against Russian ...

The Greens vow to foil the chancellor-in-waiting’s historic plan to invest big in defense and infrastructure. But it may just ...

An incoming government wants to borrow much more to revamp the economy and rebuild the military. That means a change in the ...

Mr Merz’s conservatives and the Social Democrats are in negotiations to form a government after February's election. Read ...

The conversation with Germany's likely next chancellor comes before this week's EU leaders' summit, Euractiv has learned.