The agreement between centrist parties, led by the likely next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, was billed as a response to ...

Talk of replacing the American nuclear umbrella over Europe with the small British and French nuclear armories is in the air, ...

Mr Merz’s conservatives and the Social Democrats are in negotiations to form a government after February's election. Read ...

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

Under Germany's constitution, Merz needs a two-thirds majority to get the changes passed. With the support of the Greens and ...

The deal marks a significant shift from decades of fiscal restraint in Berlin, aiming to boost defense spending amid growing ...

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

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

Germany's constitutional court threw out several challenges by opposition parties against a plan by the prospective coalition ...

Optimism was already building among economists on German and euro zone growth in a Reuters poll taken just before key ...

The Greens agreed to the deal jointly proposed by the CDU, whose leader Friedrich Merz is likely Germany's next chancellor, ...

BERLIN - German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz is set to make new concessions to the Greens on Friday in a last-ditch ...