The first step towards Mr Merz being effective on the European stage is for him to forge a coalition with the centre-left ...

Mr Merz revealed plans for two changes to the debt brake, a constitutional provision in place since 2009 that lets the ...

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.

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

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

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

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

Hours after Friedrich Merz's conservatives won Germany's national election, he sent the outgoing Social Democrat government a ...

Election winner Friedrich Merz said on Friday he was open to reforming Germany's legally prescribed spending limits as his ...

Elon Musk holds a chainsaw handed to him by Argentine President Javier Milei, behind, at the Conservative Political Action ...

European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen wants to be up to the task and has proposed an 800 billion euro (£651 ...