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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Merz’s centre-right CDU emerged as the largest party in Sunday’s federal elections, winning 208 seats in the 630-seat German ...

The German federal polls have closed, and the exit polls appear to have handed the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) a victory ...

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

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

The 69-year-old will be the oldest chancellor since Konrad Adenauer, the first chancellor of the new Federal Republic of Germany, who took office in 1949 at the age of 73 ...

Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country faces economic and diplomatic crises.

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