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

German lawmakers have reached an agreement to exempt some defense spending from the nation’s tight rules on running up debt.

An agreement has been reached on plans by German chancellor hopeful Friedrich Merz to massively ramp up public borrowing, a ...

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

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

Berlin seals a deal to ramp up defense spending indefinitely.

The agreement between centrist parties, led by the likely next chancellor, Friedrich Merz, was billed as a response to ...

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

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

Talk of replacing the American nuclear umbrella over Europe with the small British and French nuclear armories is in the air, ...

The deal marks a significant shift from decades of fiscal restraint in Berlin, aiming to boost defense spending amid growing ...

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