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

Eurobonds are being touted as the silver bullet to resolve the fiscal burden facing EU members as they plan to rearm themselves amid the threat from Russia. But raising joint debt is hugely ...

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

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

Friedrich Merz, leader of Germany's CDU/CSU parliamentary bloc, is set to lead the next government after his party came first ...

BERLIN – The Greens announced on Monday that they won’t support the debt-funded investment package proposed by Germany’s ...

The victory of the Christian Democratic leader in the February 23 German parliamentary elections was met with relief by ...

BERLIN — Germany’s Greens are vowing to put an end to Friedrich Merz’s paradigm-changing plan to invest massively in defense and infrastructure. Greens leaders on Monday said they would urge lawmakers ...

European Union leaders are holding emergency summit talks to beef up their own military defenses and make sure Ukraine will ...

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

The European Union is getting good at adapting to unprecedented circumstances. Over the last five years, the 27 member ...

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