BERLIN — Germany's would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, won lawmakers' approval Tuesday for ambitious plans to loosen the nation's strict debt rules for higher defense spending as doubts ...

BERLIN — Germany’s would-be next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, won lawmakers’ approval Tuesday for ambitious plans to loosen the nation’s strict debt rules for higher defense spending as ...

The German chancellor-in-waiting, Friedrich Merz, has won a vote in parliament to allow a huge increase in state borrowing that is set to super-charge the country’s military spending. The ...

Lawmakers have embraced plans unveiled by Friedrich Merz, soon to take the reins as Germany's new chancellor, for an enormous boost to the country's military budget, signaling a dramatic ...

Incoming German chancellor Friedrich Merz's fiscal package containing massive spending increases for defence and infrastructure received the Bundestag's approval on Tuesday, setting in motion a ...

The approval in the Bundestag hands conservative leader Friedrich Merz a huge boost, giving the chancellor-in-waiting a windfall of hundreds of billions of euros to ramp up investment after two ...

German lawmakers approved a massive defence and infrastructure spending plan proposed by incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz, allocating up to a trillion euros over the next decade. This plan aims ...

Simply sign up to the German politics myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Friedrich Merz’s €1tn spending package has cleared its final hurdle in Germany’s outgoing parliament as ...

Ein CDU-Politiker gibt zu, bei der Wahl nicht Friedrich Merz gefolgt zu sein. Berlin – Vieles ist neu ... für die AfD seit ihrem erstmaligen Einzug in den Bundestag stets zu hoch. 2017 scheiterte ...

Simply sign up to the German politics myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Germany’s incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz has expressed “confidence” about Tuesday’s make-or-break ...