German lawmakers have reached an agreement to exempt some defense spending from the nation’s tight rules on running up debt.

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.

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

The deal jointly proposed by the center-right CDU, whose leader Friedrich Merz is likely Germany's next chancellor, and ...

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

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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 ...

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 ...

Germany's likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz said Friday his conservatives had struck a deal with the Greens on massively ...

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.