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

The country's likely next conservative CDU chancellor Friedrich Merz said cost-cutting must be discussed during coalition talks with the center-left Social Democrats. It comes after he backed a ...

German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz announced Friday his conservatives had struck a deal with the Greens on massively ...

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

Friedrich Merz, leader of Germany's CDU/CSU parliamentary bloc, is set to lead the next government after his party came first ...

A new deal with the Greens could allow for as much as €1 trillion in new spending for defense and infrastructure over the ...

The opposition Alternative for Germany (AfD) party may deprive the future "big" coalition led by the likely Chancellor ...

The party said they would not support the conservative chancellor-in-waiting’s paradigm-changing plan to invest massively in ...

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

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

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

Germany's likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz has said his centre-right CDU/CSU and the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) ...