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

The likely next chancellor has staked his government on a move to increase military spending. But the window for change is ...

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

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BERLIN — Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting in a fiery Bundestag debate Thursday urged Green lawmakers to pass constitutional ...

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

The German chancellor-in-waiting said he would like talks with France and Britain about sharing weapons, but not as a ...

Germany’s plans to unleash hundreds of billions of euros more for defence risk being torpedoed by the Green party which is ...

Germany's Greens may refuse to back plans by likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz for a massive increase in state borrowing, ...

The BDI, Germany's influential industrial lobby, has welcomed the plans and said they would provide much-needed relief for energy-hungry sectors such as steel and chemicals, as well as the small- and ...

Reaching for a phrase coined in 2012 by then-ECB chief Mario Draghi which became shorthand for policy determination, Merz ...

Friedrich Merz, Germany's chancellor-in-waiting, calls for extensive state borrowing to bolster military spending. His proposals face opposition in the outgoing parliament. The constitutional changes ...