Election winner Friedrich Merz's conservative CDU, its Bavarian sister party CSU, and the Social Democrats (SPD) have taken a major step toward forming a coalition government, the heads of the parties ...

We simply must become stronger together in nuclear deterrence in Europe,' Merz, expected to become Germany's next chancellor, ...

The successful completion of the probing negotiations for the winner of the Bundestag elections, the Christian Democratic ...

At a summit in Brussels on Thursday, EU leaders backed plans to spend more on defence amid fears that Russia, emboldened by ...

The number of asylum applications in Germany fell significantly in the first two months of this year, the BAMF federal office ...

The first step towards Mr Merz being effective on the European stage is for him to forge a coalition with the centre-left ...

The parties hoping to form Germany's next government agreed to create a 500 billion euro infrastructure fund and overhaul ...

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

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

Friedrich Merz is on course to become post-World War II Germany ... Merz's task will be complicated by the need to form a ...

Such talks often drag on for weeks if not months in Germany, but Merz is in a hurry to reach a deal with Europe's biggest economy facing economic malaise and an upheaval in relations with the U.S.

The biggest winner was Friedrich Merz, leader of the center-right Christian Democrats Union, whose 28.6% vote share—including ...