The likely next government should have substantial financial leeway, thanks to credit-financed special funds. However, it ...

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

The German chancellor-in-waiting, Friedrich Merz, has won a vote in parliament to allow a huge increase in state borrowing ...

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

Germany's parliament approved plans for a massive spending surge on Tuesday, throwing off decades of fiscal conservatism in ...

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

Chancellor-in-waiting uses outgoing Bundestag to loosen debt brake and unleash investments in defence and infrastructure ...

Germany’s chancellor-to-be Friedrich Merz has agreed a deal with the Green party to inject hundreds of billions into the ...

Ahead of Friedrich Merz's arrival in power in Berlin, several leaders are pushing for Eurobonds to fund the continent's ...

Officials in Paris and Berlin are excited about the good relationship incoming German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has with ...

After his conservative bloc came out ahead in German legislative elections with almost 30 percent of the vote, Friedrich Merz must now forge a coalition government. Merz has pledged to revive the ...