German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz said he had secured the crucial backing of the Greens for a massive increase in ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz was set to make a last-ditch attempt on Friday to convince the ...

The agreement between centrist parties, led by the likely next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, was billed as a response to ...

Germany's constitutional court threw out several challenges by opposition parties against a plan by the prospective coalition ...

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

Germany's constitutional court dismissed challenges from opposition parties against a significant public spending plan put ...

The likely next chancellor has staked his government on a move to increase military spending. But the window for change is ...

German lawmakers have reached an agreement to exempt some defense spending from the nation’s tight rules on running up debt.

Germany’s likely next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has announced a deal to drastically overhaul the country’s debt rules to allow a boom in defence and security spending as well as 500 billion euros ...

Even before Friday's news, economists in the March 10-14 Reuters poll broke a long spell of downgrades to 2025 euro zone ...

The deal jointly proposed by the center-right CDU, whose leader Friedrich Merz is likely Germany's next chancellor, and ...

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