Germany’s conservatives and the Social Democrats agreed to deepen talks over forming a new government, a step forward as ...

Forget the back-slapping pol ready to banter about the Bundesliga; Friedrich Merz is a former corporate lawyer who wrote a ...

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

According to Friedrich Merz, his conservative CDU/CSU bloc and the Social Democratic Party leaders agreed on common ...

German election winner Friedrich Merz's conservatives and Social Democrats have completed preliminary coalition talks. They ...

The agreement between Friedrich Merz, the likely next chancellor, and his potential coalition partners also includes big new ...

Having led his party, the Christian Democrats, to first place in Germany’s election last month, Mr. Merz swiftly assumed the ...

Already, Merz has pledged to increase defense spending and put Paris, Warsaw, and London at the lead of a new policy to shore ...

German election winner Friedrich Merz is leading coalition talks with the SPD, focusing on illegal migration, economic support, and strengthened defenses. The CDU/CSU and SPD face time constraints to ...

Center-right election winner Friedrich Merz, who is trying to form a coalition government with the center-left Social ...

Germany's likely next chancellor stated that the incoming government plans to propose a €500 billion economic development and ...

Friedrich Merz, the leader of Germany's centre-right CDU/CSU party, on Tuesday said that his government would seek to ...