Under Germany's constitution, Merz needs a two-thirds majority to get the changes passed. With the support of the Greens and ...

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

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

German conservative leader Friedrich Merz reached an agreement with the Green party on a debt-funded spending package for ...

The apparent deal with the Greens paves the way for up to €1 trillion in new spending for defense and infrastructure.

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

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

Optimism was already building among economists on German and euro zone growth in a Reuters poll taken just before key ...

Germany's incoming chancellor, Friedrich Merz, announced a landmark deal to revise debt rules, enabling increased defence ...

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Chancellor-to-be vows greater share of investments for green transition as outgoing Bundestag reconvenes to debate bills ...

Euro zone bond yields climbed as Germany's incoming chancellor Friedrich Merz struck a deal with the Greens and Social ...