Germany plans to amend its constitution in order to remove limits on raising debt for defense and set up a €500 billion ($541 ...

Friedrich Merz, who once presented himself as the last line of defence against debt madness, is now set to push Germany’s new ...

Losing faith in Washington as a military ally, Berlin wants to rip up the old fiscal orthodoxy. But it’s now a race against ...

The CDU/CSU and SPD are proposing to create a special fund of €500bn for infrastructure and defence by reforming the ...

Negotiators from German election winner Friedrich Merz’s conservative bloc and the center-left Social Democrats have started ...

German election winner says he will hold talks with other parties to adopt constitutional change in next 30 days ...

Friedrich Merz, leader of Germany's CDU/CSU parliamentary bloc, is set to lead the next government after his party came first ...

The Christian Democrats won with 28.6% of the vote while the far-right Alternative for Germany came second with 20.8%.

Friedrich Merz’s Christian Democrats took the highest portion of a record number of votes. An ascendant far right, crumbling ...

The victory of the Christian Democratic leader in the February 23 German parliamentary elections was met with relief by ...

To immediately free up budgetary leeway to finance his country's rearmament, the incoming chancellor plans to vote in a ...

Friedrich Merz's political journey, stance on immigration, leadership style, and economic promises as the potential ...