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

Officials in Paris and Berlin are excited about the good relationship incoming German Chancellor Friedrich Merz has with ...

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

Well, of course not. But Germany's accidental chancellor has a crucial role to play in history, like it or not ...

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

Friedrich Merz wants to end Germany’s deadlock on EU policy, but his solution may not be to everyone’s liking.

Not so long ago, European corporate bosses were worried about missing out on the “Trump bump”. U.S. President Donald Trump’s ...

The victory of the Christian Democratic leader in the February 23 German parliamentary elections was met with relief by ...

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

But, although he will not become chancellor for some weeks, Friedrich Merz, who won Germany’s election on February 23rd, has ...