The agreement between centrist parties, led by the likely next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, was billed as a response to ...

Mr Merz’s conservatives and the Social Democrats are in negotiations to form a government after February's election. Read ...

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

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

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

An agreement has been reached on plans by German chancellor hopeful Friedrich Merz to massively ramp up public borrowing, a ...

Germany's constitutional court threw out several challenges by opposition parties against a plan by the prospective coalition ...

The Greens agreed to the deal jointly proposed by the CDU, whose leader Friedrich Merz is likely Germany's next chancellor, ...

BERLIN - German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz is set to make new concessions to the Greens on Friday in a last-ditch ...

By Andreas Rinke, Holger Hansen and Sarah Marsh BERLIN (Reuters) -German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz said on Friday ...

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

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