Germany’s chancellor-to-be Friedrich Merz has agreed a deal with the Green party to inject hundreds of billions into the ...

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

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

Germany's chancellor designate Friedrich Merz wants to scrap restraints on borrowing and allow for much higher defence ...

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

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

German voters have had their say. Now their verdict is being turned into reality underneath the glass dome of Berlin’s ...

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

The likely next chancellor of Germany, Friedrich Merz, announced on Friday, March 14, that he had secured enough votes to ...

Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz on Thursday made concessions to the Green Party in the hopes it would lend critically important votes to his multi-billion-euro ...

Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting, Friedrich Merz, is under fire from opposition politicians over his “radical proposals” to relax the so-called debt brake to boost the economy and allow for ...