Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz wants to alter Germany's strict fiscal rules to massively boost defence spending, the Greens are standing in his way.

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

Even though negotiations to form a coalition have not yet begun, the head of the Christian Democratic Union party, which came ...

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Chancellor-to-be vows greater share of investments for green transition as outgoing Bundestag reconvenes to debate bills ...

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

Merz's conservatives and the center-left Social Democrats – in talks to form a coalition after February's general election – ...

BERLIN — Germany's likely next government under conservative leader Friedrich Merz has said it plans a shot in the arm for ...

Merz — a long-time CDU party rival of ex-chancellor Angela Merkel — has vowed a crackdown on irregular immigration and a ...

Germany's CDU, CSU and SPD parties have produced an exploratory paper on their plans on various topics, including migration, ...

The Greens vow to foil the chancellor-in-waiting’s historic plan to invest big in defense and infrastructure. But it may just ...