Forget the back-slapping pol ready to banter about the Bundesliga; Friedrich Merz is a former corporate lawyer who wrote a ...

Already, Merz has pledged to increase defense spending and put Paris, Warsaw, and London at the lead of a new policy to shore ...

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz has begun the heavy lifting required to shore up the parliamentary super-majority ...

FILE - Floor leader Friedrich ... Merz put toughening Germany's immigration laws at the forefront of the election campaign after a migrant killed two people in a knife attack in the Bavarian city ...

European bond yields have continued to climb on Thursday as traders factor in years of higher borrowing from major European ...

German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz said he wants a deal with the Social Democrats on boosting defense spending ...

Boris Johnson once said “London is to the billionaire as the jungles of Sumatra are to the orangutan,” as he hailed the ...

The two parties likely to form Germany’s next government led by the conservative Friedrich Merz are exploring options for ...

Russian soldiers crept miles through a major gas pipeline near the town of Sudzha to catch Ukrainian forces off-guard as part ...

Germany will unlock hundreds of billions of euros for defense and infrastructure investments in a dramatic shift that upends ...

BRUSSELS (AP) — European Union leaders on Thursday backed new defense spending plans aimed at freeing up billions of euros ...

French President Emmanuel Macron suggests extending France's nuclear deterrence to its European allies in response to ...