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 ...

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

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

The surge followed an agreement led by Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz that would largely exempt defence spending from ...

Germany is the latest European country to shift to the right, following last weekend’s elections.  Economic decline is a big ...

The two political parties expected to form the next German government have agreed to loosen the country’s constitution ...

Merz, a longtime Atlanticist who had previously baulked at financing public spending through large-scale debt, has quickly ...

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

Germany has finally decided to join the party – but Europe may come to regret it. After two decades of limited borrowing and ...

European Union leaders are holding emergency talks on ways to quickly increase their military budgets after the Trump ...

Germany's center-right Christian Democrats, under their leader and likely next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, have proposed a constitutional amendment to allow higher government borrowing to boost ...