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

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

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

Merz’s embrace of compromise with the SPD and the Greens (who are expected to play a role in the coalition) risks being seen ...

Germany ’s outgoing Bundestag will go out with a bang on Tuesday with an all-or-nothing sitting to back – or sink – an ...

Germany's parliament approved plans for a massive spending surge on Tuesday, throwing off decades of fiscal conservatism in ...

Germany’s incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz has expressed “confidence” about Tuesday’s make-or-break vote in parliament over ...

With an eye on Donald Trump’s Nato threats, Friedrich Merz has a plan that will permit effectively unlimited spending on ...

The future Chancellor Friedrich Merz is "lying like Goebbels", stating that Russia is allegedly "waging an aggressive hybrid ...

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

Friedrich Merz’s €1tn spending package has cleared its final hurdle in Germany’s outgoing parliament as the conservative chancellor-in-waiting turns to difficult coalition talks with Social Democrats.

Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz wants to alter Germany's strict fiscal rules to massively boost defence spending, the ...