The agreement between Friedrich Merz, the likely next chancellor, and his potential coalition partners also includes big new infrastructure spending. By Jim Tankersley Reporting from Berlin Ever ...

German Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz is open to making concessions to the Greens to secure support for constitutional changes that would unleash hundreds of billions of euros in defense and ...

Germany’s Friedrich Merz, poised to be his country’s next chancellor, said he thinks the explosive exchange between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and President Trump on Friday ...

Merz, whose conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) emerged the biggest in February’s legislative elections, wants in particular to relax the strict limits imposed by the “debt brake ...

Germany’s future chancellor Friedrich Merz on Saturday said his conservative CDU party has come to an agreement in principle with the Social Democrats (SPD) to form a coalition government.

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 ...