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 ...

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

Forget the back-slapping pol ready to banter about the Bundesliga; Friedrich Merz is a former corporate lawyer who wrote a ...

Leaders in Germany's likely next coalition have met to discuss Ukraine policy and security. Outgoing Foreign Minister ...

The winner of the German parliamentary elections, Friedrich Merz, stated that his country would allocate an additional 3 ...

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

Germany's likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz has accused Donald Trump of deliberately escalating ... Outgoing SPD ...

Germany could rush measures to finance a huge hike in spending on defence and military aid for Ukraine through its outgoing ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's disastrous meeting in the White House on Friday has left Germany in a state of ...