Germany's conservative leader clinches an major financial agreement ahead of a crunch vote in parliament.

By Andreas Rinke, Holger Hansen and Sarah Marsh BERLIN (Reuters) -German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz said on Friday ...

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

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

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

German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz said today he had secured the crucial backing of the Greens for a massive ...

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

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Chancellor-to-be vows greater share of investments for green transition as outgoing Bundestag reconvenes to debate bills ...

German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz says he had secured the crucial backing of the Greens for a massive increase in ...

Germany's three major political parties have agreed on a reformed debt brake that exempts defence spending above 1% of GDP.

Germany's constitutional court dismissed challenges from opposition parties against a significant public spending plan put ...