Having led his party, the Christian Democrats, to first place in Germany’s election last month, Mr. Merz swiftly assumed the ...

Already, Merz has pledged to increase defense spending and put Paris, Warsaw, and London at the lead of a new policy to shore ...

The agreement between Friedrich Merz, the likely next chancellor, and his potential coalition partners also includes big new ...

But, although he will not become chancellor for some weeks, Friedrich Merz, who won Germany’s election on February 23rd, has ...

Such a plan would mark a step-change in Germany’s traditionally conservative approach to public borrowing. Berlin in 2009 ...

The prospective partners in Germany’s next government say they will seek to loosen the nation’s rules on running up debt to ...

Germany's likely chancellor-to-be announces a political deal to raise hundreds of billions of euros in extra spending.

Berlin may have found a way to rearm despite balanced-budget restraints.

Germany's Greens may refuse to back plans by likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz for a massive increase in state borrowing, ...

Germany’s Green party said it will reject a debt-financed package that would unleash hundreds billions of euros in defense and infrastructure spending, leaving chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz ...

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

Germany’s Friedrich Merz on Sunday (March 5, 2025) reiterated that he was open to France extending its nuclear deterrent in ...