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

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

By Andreas Rinke and Matthias Williams BERLIN (Reuters) -German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Wednesday called for the ...

Friedrich Merz succeeded in his bid to become the next German chancellor during a second vote in parliament, hours after he suffered a historic defeat in the first round.

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

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

Post-WWII Germany has long been wary of state power and unfettered spending − and that may stymie new chancellor’s plans.

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

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

Johann Wadephul, Mr Merz’s foreign minister, said Berlin was ready to commit to spending 5 per cent of annual GDP on defence as demanded by Donald Trump, the US president. He said Germany would ...

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz warned that further concessions from Ukraine during negotiations would be unreasonable if ...

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 ...