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

Germany's likely next leader Friedrich Merz is set to defend his unprecedented plans to massively ramp up defence and infrastructure spending in parliament as lawmakers begin debating the proposals.

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

BERLIN – The Greens announced on Monday that they won’t support the debt-funded investment package proposed by Germany’s ...

The clock is ticking for Merz to persuade lawmakers in the outgoing parliament to back plans to unshackle Germany's tight ...

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Hours after his election victory last Sunday, Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany’s center-right Christian Democrats (CDU), said on national television that he would try to “achieve ...

We simply must become stronger together in nuclear deterrence in Europe,' Merz, expected to become Germany's next chancellor, ...

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

The CDU/CSU and SPD are proposing to create a special fund of €500bn for infrastructure and defence by reforming the ...

Election winner Friedrich Merz's conservative CDU, its Bavarian sister party CSU, and the Social Democrats (SPD) have taken a major step toward forming a coalition government, the heads of the parties ...

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