A bold move by Germany’s prime minister-in-waiting Friedrich Merz to ease longstanding caps on government spending has won ...

Merz’s embrace of compromise with the SPD and the Greens (who are expected to play a role in the coalition) risks being seen ...

The likely next government should have substantial financial leeway, thanks to credit-financed special funds. However, it ...

Incoming Chancellor Friedrich Merz is under growing pressure to win conservative policy concessions as coalition talks hit ...

This time it is Friedrich Merz, the supposedly steel-spined conservative who spent years critiquing Angela Merkel’s drift ...

The German chancellor-in-waiting, Friedrich Merz, has won a vote in parliament to allow a huge increase in state borrowing ...

Friedrich Merz promised to do things differently. Ahead of the country’s federal election last month, the likely next ...

Germany's conservative leader, Friedrich Merz, has clinched an enormous financial ... of disagreements over loosening debt ...

While the European Commission is still drafting its final rearmament plan and the U.S. and Russia are trying to decide ...

From the apparent success of Merz' multi-billion spending proposal to the coming of spring and a potential boycott of US ...

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

A new deal with the Greens could allow for as much as €1 trillion in new spending for defense and infrastructure over the ...