Chancellor Friedrich Merz for the first time publicly advocated spending up to 5% of the German economy on defense.

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Wednesday called for the European Union's supply chain audit law to be scrapped, though ...

BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany plans to allocate 1.5% of its economic output to infrastructure that has military uses, Chancellor ...

Supporters of Mr. Merz, a former corporate lawyer, say he is well-prepared and thoughtful, but critics accuse him of failing ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz defended his government's new migration policy on Saturday, saying it remains in line with ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz did not rule out common European Union borrowing for defence during a trip to Brussels on ...

New German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said Wednesday he will work to bring Europe and the U.S. together in their approach to ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Friedrich Merz received a rude shock on the morning of May 6, 2025, ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said his government’s top priority is to transform the nation’s armed forces into Europe’s ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Wednesday urged the West not to be divided on Ukraine and said he was working to ensure ...

Many analysts praised the change as a breakthrough. The markets soared. The new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, claimed: “Germany is back.” To be sure, fiscal policy reform was long overdue. But the new ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Friday called for European unity to achieve peace in Ukraine as he attended his first ...