Europe is facing a lot of difficulties, because the world order after 1945 is slowly coming to an end. Friedrich Merz, the ...

A bold move by Germany’s prime minister-in-waiting Friedrich Merz to ease longstanding caps on government spending has won ...

Working groups for Germany's election-winning conservatives and the centre-left Social Democrats will submit findings on a ...

Friedrich Merz, poised to become Germany’s next chancellor, is charting an unexpected course in relations with President ...

German fiscal reform could also affect the natural rate of interest by increasing the supply of German sovereign bonds, which are currently the benchmark European safe asset.

The Finance Ministry also plans to authorise commitments of €8.2 billion for the years 2026 to 2029, bringing the total to ...

The likely next government should have substantial financial leeway, thanks to credit-financed special funds. However, it will also face big foreign policy challenges — almost all of which are linked ...

Worth hundreds of billions of euros, the so-called spending "bazooka" has been pushed by the likely next chancellor Friedrich ...

If NATO members don’t pay, the US won’t defend them, Trump reiterated recently. “Doesn’t make sense for America to pay for ...

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The money is earmarked for defense equipment for the country fighting Russian forces, including munitions, drones, armored ...