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 ...

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 ...

Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany ... need to form a coalition with the center-left Social Democrats of outgoing Chancellor Olaf Scholz. He has repeatedly pledged not to ...