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 ...

Friedrich Merz promised tougher measures to tackle illegal migration, including by turning away people at Germany's borders ...

The far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) has charged that Friedrich Merz, the country's likely next chancellor, has ...

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 ...

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.

Germany's three major political parties have agreed on a reformed debt brake that exempts defence spending above 1% of GDP.

The apparent deal with the Greens paves the way for up to €1 trillion in new spending for defense and infrastructure.

German finance ministry officials are considering a compromise debt deal, with some details still being worked out, according ...