Germany's Greens, whose support is needed for the prospective next government's plans to loosen debt rules for defense ...

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

Germany's Greens, led by Felix Banaszak, plan to draft their own security and defense proposal, opposing the conservatives' and SPD's massive borrowing plans. The Greens accuse the conservatives of ...

For the third time in its modern history, Germany faced the prospect of early elections. With the Free Democratic Party (FDP) ...

At the end of a historic week for Germany, which started with the announcement of a €500bn investment fund, changes to the ...

Election winner Friedrich Merz's conservative CDU, its Bavarian sister party CSU, and the Social Democrats (SPD) have taken a major step toward forming a coalition government, the heads of the parties ...

The German chancellor-in-waiting said he would like talks with France and Britain about sharing weapons, but not as a ...

At a summit in Brussels on Thursday, EU leaders backed plans to spend more on defence amid fears that Russia, emboldened by ...

An initial outline of a possible coalition deal between Germany's centre-right Christian Democrats (CDU) and the centre-left ...

Germany's chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz has promised to "massively expand border controls" once the country's next ...

The preliminary policy agreement that will form the basis for coalition talks was "no mean feat", said Friedrich Merz.

Austria will not accept asylum seekers turned back at the German border, the Interior Ministry in Vienna told dpa on Sunday ...