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

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

Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz wants to alter Germany's strict fiscal rules to massively boost defence spending, 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 said on Friday he had secured the crucial backing of the Greens for a massive ...

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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 announced Friday his conservatives had struck a deal with the Greens on massively ...

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

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

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

Euro zone bond yields climbed as Germany's incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz struck a deal with the Greens and Social ...