A bold move by Germany’s prime minister-in-waiting Friedrich Merz to ease longstanding caps on government spending has won ...

Friedrich Merz, poised to become Germany’s next chancellor, is charting an unexpected course in relations with President ...

Incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz is under growing pressure to win conservative policy concessions as coalition talks hit ...

However, it will also face big foreign policy challenges— almost all of which are linked to Donald Trump. Those were the ...

Working groups for Germany's election-winning conservatives and the centre-left Social Democrats will submit findings on a ...

The German chancellor-in-waiting, Friedrich Merz, has won a vote in parliament to allow a huge increase in state borrowing ...

Friedrich Merz's debt-funded investment package is still facing unknowns, that could sink the legislation and doom his ...

FILE PHOTO: Friedrich Merz, chancellor-in-waiting and leader of Christian Democratic Union party (CDU), looks on as he ...

Even though negotiations to form a coalition have not yet begun, the head of the Christian Democratic Union party, which came ...

Friedrich Merz promised to do things differently. Ahead of the country’s federal election last month, the likely next ...

Under Germany's constitution, Merz needs a two-thirds majority to get the changes passed. With the support of the Greens and ...

Chancellor-in-waiting uses outgoing Bundestag to loosen debt brake and unleash investments in defence and infrastructure ...