BERLIN — Germany’s chancellor-in-waiting in a fiery Bundestag debate Thursday urged Green lawmakers to pass constitutional ...

Friedrich Merz wants to end Germany’s deadlock on EU policy, but his solution may not be to everyone’s liking.

Even though negotiations to form a coalition have not yet begun, the head of the Christian Democratic Union party, which came ...

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

The Greens vow to foil the chancellor-in-waiting’s historic plan to invest big in defense and infrastructure. But it may just ...

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, leader of Germany's CDU/CSU parliamentary bloc, is set to lead the next government after his party came first ...

It is indeed important for the EU to increase its defense capability to reduce its dependence on the United States for ...

The victory of the Christian Democratic leader in the February 23 German parliamentary elections was met with relief by ...

The German chancellor-in-waiting said he would like talks with France and Britain about sharing weapons, but not as a ...

European Union leaders are holding emergency summit talks to beef up their own military defenses and make sure Ukraine will ...

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