Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz wants to alter Germany's strict fiscal rules to massively boost defence spending, the ...

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Chancellor-to-be vows greater share of investments for green transition as outgoing Bundestag reconvenes to debate bills ...

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

Germany’s likely next leader Friedrich Merz was set yesterday to defend his unprecedented plans to massively ramp up defense ...

Merz's conservatives and the center-left Social Democrats – in talks to form a coalition after February's general election – ...

Under Merz, a one-time fiscal conservative, Germany is ready to lift its debt ceiling and enlarge defence spending in ...

The leaders of Germany's conservative bloc and the Social Democrats (SPD) have agreed on a common migration policy that would ...

Merz — a long-time CDU party rival of ex-chancellor Angela Merkel — has vowed a crackdown on irregular immigration and a ...

The opposition Alternative for Germany (AfD) party may deprive the future "big" coalition led by the likely Chancellor ...

Germany's chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz has promised to "massively expand border controls" once the country's next ...

Germany's CDU, CSU and SPD parties have produced an exploratory paper on their plans on various topics, including migration, ...