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

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

Forget the back-slapping pol ready to banter about the Bundesliga; Friedrich Merz is a former corporate lawyer who wrote a ...

Already, Merz has pledged to increase defense spending and put Paris, Warsaw, and London at the lead of a new policy to shore ...

The victory of Friedrich Merz and his Christian Democrats (CDU ... Once a rock of stability at the centre of Europe, it now looks acutely vulnerable on multiple fronts. It can no longer rely ...

German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz said on Friday he had secured the crucial backing of the Greens for a massive ...

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 ...

Friedrich Merz wants to end Germany’s deadlock on EU policy, but his solution may not be to everyone’s liking.

“Friedrich Merz only has this one shot,” said Andrea ... he said that “it’s clear that this administration is largely indifferent to Europe’s fate.” Analysts and fellow politicians ...

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 ...