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

Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz wants to alter Germany's strict fiscal rules to massively boost defence spending, the ...

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

Berlin seals a deal to ramp up defense spending indefinitely.

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 ...

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

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

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

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

An agreement has been reached on plans by German chancellor hopeful Friedrich Merz to massively ramp up public borrowing, a ...

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