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

Germany's likely next leader Friedrich Merz said Thursday urgent action was needed to boost the country's under-resourced ...

The opposition Alternative for Germany (AfD) party may deprive the future "big" coalition led by the likely Chancellor ...

Even though negotiations to form a coalition have not yet begun, the head of the Christian Democratic Union party, which came ...

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

Germany's likely next leader Friedrich Merz is set to defend his unprecedented plans to massively ramp up defence and infrastructure spending in parliament as lawmakers begin debating the proposals.

While Merz is already setting the scene for his chancellery with an unprecedented, debt-funded investment announcement, ...

German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservatives and Social Democrats have completed preliminary coalition talks. They ...

For some, it was a case of Merz’s strategic sense not matching the acute tactical skills that enabled him to repeatedly pin ...

Friedrich Merz, leader of the Christian Democratic Union ... co-leader of the Social Democratic Party (SPD), German ...

BERLIN (Reuters) -German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservatives and the Social Democrats (SPD) have concluded ...

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