Germany's conservative leader and would-be next chancellor Friedrich Merz has agreed what amounts to a fiscal policy sea-change with support from the Social Democrats (SPD), his likely coalition ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz reached an agreement with the Green party on a debt-funded spending package for ...

The likely next chancellor has staked his government on a move to increase military spending. But the window for change is ...

Germany’s likely next leader Friedrich Merz was set yesterday to defend his unprecedented plans to massively ramp up defense ...

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Germany's likely next leader Friedrich Merz said Thursday urgent action was needed to boost the country's under-resourced ...

Germany’s “Great Coalitions” are getting smaller. In the (then West German) Federal Republic in the 1980s, the centrist major parties gathered over 85% of the vote between them. In 2025, the former ...

Germany’s Greens say they won't support the prospective next government’s plans to loosen debt rules for defense spending and ...