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 ...

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

Berlin seals a deal to ramp up defense spending indefinitely.

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

Germany's likely next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, on Friday hailed a cross-party agreement on a landmark infrastructure 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-to-be vows greater share of investments for green transition as outgoing Bundestag reconvenes to debate bills ...

Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) leader Friedrich Merz on Thursday made concessions to the Green Party in the hopes it would lend critically important votes to his multi-billion-euro ...

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

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