Under Germany's constitution, Merz needs a two-thirds majority to get the changes passed. With the support of the Greens and ...

Euro zone bond yields climbed as Germany's incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz struck a deal with the Greens and Social ...

The deal follows several days of often acrimonious debate during which the Greens had threatened to withhold their ...

The future Chancellor of Germany, Friedrich Merz, confirmed on Friday that the CDU/CSU Christian Democratic parties and the ...

The deal marks a significant shift from decades of fiscal restraint in Berlin, aiming to boost defense spending amid growing ...

Even before Friday's news, economists in the March 10-14 Reuters poll broke a long spell of downgrades to 2025 euro zone ...

The agreement reached with the Greens would allow Germany to spend up to €1 trillion on defence and infrastructure over the ...

In other news, Poland’s announcement of tax on big tech prompts predictable US backlash; Slovakia’s PM denies Croatian ...

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

Current Bundestag could pass package next Tuesday, but after that, approval by 2/3 of votes in Federal Council is also ...

European countries have broadly tried to wean themselves off a dependence on Russian oil in the more than three years since ...

The German Social Democratic Party (SPD) demanded major pro-immigration commitments as a precondition for joining a coalition with the Christian Democratic Union (CDU). The topic of immigration has gr ...