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

The country's likely next conservative CDU chancellor Friedrich Merz said cost-cutting must be discussed during coalition ...

A new deal with the Greens could allow for as much as €1 trillion in new spending for defense and infrastructure over the ...

The selloff in Germany’s bonds spilled over to a second week as Chancellor-elect Friedrich Merz won crucial political backing ...

Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz on Thursday made concessions to the Green Party in the hopes ...

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.

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

FILE PHOTO: Friedrich Merz, chancellor-in-waiting and leader of Christian Democratic Union party (CDU), looks on as he ...

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

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

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