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

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

Berlin has acknowledged that its budget rules are no match for the double danger facing Germany: A significant threat to its ...

Berlin’s decision to lift all caps on military spending and binge on infrastructure marks a U-turn for the fiscally ...

A provision would exempt defence spending above 1% of GDP from debt brake rules, enabling Germany to increase military ...

European bond yields have continued to climb on Thursday as traders factor in years of higher borrowing from major European ...

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

BERLIN - The parties hoping to form Germany's next government have agreed to create a 500 billion euro infrastructure fund ...

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

Germany has been wary of projecting military might since the horrors it perpetrated under Nazism. Read more at ...

Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political career that was once sidelined by his party’s iconic leader BERLIN ...

As Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy continues to scramble for support through Europe following rift with the United ...