Merz declares Germany is back as the country secures major defence and infrastructure funding ahead of a crucial ...

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

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

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

Merz's conservatives and the center-left Social Democrats – in talks to form a coalition after February's general election – ...

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

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

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

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

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

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