Germany's likely next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, on Friday hailed a cross-party agreement on a landmark infrastructure and ...

A new deal with the Greens could allow for as much as €1 trillion in new spending for defense and infrastructure over the ...

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

Chancellor-in-waiting Friedrich Merz wants to alter Germany's strict fiscal rules to massively boost defence spending, the ...

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 ...

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

Germany's three major political parties have agreed on a reformed debt brake that exempts defence spending above 1% of GDP.

But, although he will not become chancellor for some weeks, Friedrich Merz, who won Germany’s election on February 23rd, has ...

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