Germany's outgoing lower house of parliament began a special session on Thursday to debate a 500 billion euro fund for ...

Germany's IfW economic institute raised its 2026 growth estimate for Europe's largest economy on Thursday, anticipating ...

With Europe experiencing its most devastating war since 1945 and President Donald Trump ripping up the transatlantic alliance ...

The German chancellor-in-waiting said he would like talks with France and Britain about sharing weapons, but not as a ...

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

Merz, a man who has never held a government role, is preparing to take the reins in Germany just as the country faces economic and diplomatic crises.

Mr. Hermsmeier is a journalist who writes about Germany’s politics and society. Friedrich Merz didn’t waste time. Having led his party, the Christian Democrats, to first place in Germany’s ...

Exit polls suggest that Friedrich Merz, the candidate for the conservative Christian Democrats who has vowed to bring stronger leadership in Europe, will be Germany’s next leader. The hard-right AfD ...

Such a plan would mark a step-change in Germany’s traditionally conservative approach to public borrowing. Berlin in 2009 ...

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

The German federal polls have closed, and the exit polls appear to have handed the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) a victory ...

Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany’s 10th chancellor, the culmination of a yearslong political career that was once sidelined by his party’s iconic leader BERLIN -- ...