Mr Merz revealed plans for two changes to the debt brake, a constitutional provision in place since 2009 that lets the ...

The first step towards Mr Merz being effective on the European stage is for him to forge a coalition with the centre-left ...

Berlin may have found a way to rearm despite balanced-budget restraints.

Having led his party, the Christian Democrats, to first place in Germany’s election last month, Mr. Merz swiftly assumed the ...

The parties hoping to form Germany's next government agreed to create a 500 billion euro infrastructure fund and overhaul ...

Germany's likely chancellor-to-be announces a political deal to raise hundreds of billions of euros in extra spending.

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

Hours after Friedrich Merz's conservatives won Germany's national election, he sent the outgoing Social Democrat government a ...

Chris Bryant is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering industrial companies in Europe. Previously, he was a reporter for the ...

Germany's likely next chancellor Friedrich Merz has said his centre-right CDU/CSU and the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD) ...

It seems that the EU leaders have “seen the light” when it comes to the Continent‘s self-defense. However, look again. To pay ...

Germany’s Friedrich Merz, poised to be his country’s next chancellor, said he thinks the explosive exchange between Ukrainian ...